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BARDOWIEK

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 396 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARDOWIEK  , a

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village of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover, 3 M . N. of
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Luneburg on the navigable
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Ilmenau . Pop . 2000 . Its trade consists entirely in agricultural produce . The
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Gothic parish church (c . 1400) incorporates remains of a
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cathedral of vast dimensions . Bardowiek was founded in the 8th century by Charlemagne, who established a bishopric in it, and until its destruction by Henry the Lion in 1189, it was the most prosperous commercial city of north Germany . Its name is derived from the Longobardi, the tribe for whom it was the home and centre, and from it the colonization of
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Lombardy started .

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