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ALTENA

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 763 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALTENA  , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Westphalia, on the See also:river Lenne, 38 m . S.S.E. from See also:Dortmund . Pop . (1900) 12,769 . It consists of a single See also:street, winding up a deep valley for about 3 M . There are three churches, a museum, high grade and popular See also:schools . Its hardware See also:industries are important, and embrace See also:iron See also:rolling, the manufacture of See also:fine See also:wire, needles, springs and See also:silver ornaments . On the neighbouring Schlossberg is the ancestral See also:castle of the See also:counts of La Marck, ancestors, on the See also:female See also:side, of the Prussian royal See also:house .

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