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AMBERG

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 794 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMBERG  , a

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town of Germany, in the
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kingdom of Bavaria, formerly the capital of the Upper Palatinate, situated on both sides of the Vils, 42 M . E. of Nuremberg by
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rail . Pop . 22,089 . It has a town hall with handsome rooms, a library, a gymnasium, a
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lyceum, elementary
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schools, an
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arsenal, and eleven churches, the finest of which is St Martin's, of the 15th century, with many excellent paintings and a tower 300 ft. high . A former Jesuit monastery is now used for a grammar school and seminary . There are also a pilgrimage church on a hill 1621 ft. high, a large convict prison for men, an
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industrial, commercial and other schools . The
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principal manufactures are firearms, ironmongery, earthenware, woollen
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cloth,
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beer, stoneware,
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zinc goods, colours and salt; in the neighbourhood are iron and
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coal mines . The French under Jourdan were defeated by the Austrians under the Archduke Charles near Amberg in 1796 .

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