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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 772 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BERGEDORF , a

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TOWN

town of

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Germany, in the territory of

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HAMBURG

Hamburg, on the

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RIVER

river Bille, to m. by

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RAIL

rail E. by S. from the

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CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city . Pop . (1900) 23,728 . It produces vegetables and

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FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit for the Hamburg markets, and carries on tanning,

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glass manufacture,

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BREWING

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BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick-making . It received civic rights in 1275, belonged to

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LUBECK

Lubeck and Hamburg conjointly from 1420 to 1868, and in the latter

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YEAR

year was

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PURCHASED

purchased by Hamburg . The surrounding

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DISTRICT

district, exceptionally fertile marshland, is known as

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Die Vierlande, being divided into four parishes, whence the name is derived .

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