“ KHOTIN, or Khoteen (variously written Khochim, Choczim, and Chocim) , a fortified town of South Russia, in the government of Bessarabia, in 48° 30′ N. and 26° 30′ E., on the right bank of the Dniester, near the Austrian (Galician) frontier, and opposite Podolian Kamenets. Pop. (1897) , 18,126. It possesses a few manufactures (leather, candles, beer, shoes, bricks) , and carries on a considerable trade, but has always been of importance mainly as a military post, defending one of the most frequented passages of the Dniester. In the middle ages it was the seat of a Genoese colony ”