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Zyryan
city, eastern Kazakstan, on the Beryozovka River in the southern Altai Mountains. Zyryan is an important centre of the lead- and zinc-mining industry, which first came into being when rich deposits of polymetallic ores were discovered there in 1794 by ...
Zywiec
town, Slaskie wojewodztwo (province), south-central Poland, in the Carpathian Mountains on the Sola River near the border with Slovakia. It lies at the foot of Grojec Mountain, which has made it an important tourist centre. The town ...
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