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AURICH , a See also: town of See also: Germany, in the Prussian province of See also: Hanover, chief town of the See also: district of See also: East See also: Friesland, on the See also: Ems-See also: Jade canal, 18 m
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N.W. from See also: Emden by See also: rail
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Pop
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(1900) 6013
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It is built in the Dutch See also: style, and lies in a sandy but fertile plain, surrounded by pleasant promenades which have taken the place of the old fortifications
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It has a palace, formerly the residence of the See also: counts of East Friesland and now used as See also: government offices, a See also: Roman Catholic and two See also: Protestant churches, a gymnasium, and four See also: libraries
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There are breweries
and small manufactories of paper and See also: tobacco
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Close by is the Upstallsboom, the See also: hill of
See also: oath and liberty, where every See also: year at
Whitsuntide representatives of the seven Frisian See also: coast lands assembled to deliberate
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See Wiarda, Bruchstacke zur Geschichte der Stadt Aurich (Emden, 1835)
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