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See also: town of Bohemia, See also: Austria, 27 M
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S.W. of See also: Prague by See also: rail
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Pop
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(1900) 9693, mostly See also: Czech
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It is situated at the confluence of the See also: Beraun with the Litawa See also: river, and is the seat of important textile industry, See also: sugar-refining, corn-milling and See also: brewing
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Lime-kilns and the manufacture of cement, and smelting and iron See also: works are carried on in the environs
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Beraun is a place of immemorial antiquity
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It was originally called na Brode (by the See also: ford), and received the name of See also: Bern, Berun or See also: Verona in the 13th century, when it obtained the privileges of a city from the emperor See also: Charles IV., who was specially attached to the place, calling it " Verona mea." Under his patronage the town rapidly prospered
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In 1421 'Lizka stormed the town, which later on was retaken and devastated by the troops of Duke Leopold,
See also: bishop of See also: Passau
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During the See also: Thirty Years' War it was sacked by the Imperialists, the See also: Saxons and the Swedes in turn; and in the first Silesian war the same See also: fate befell it at the hands of the French and Bavarians
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