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BERKA

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 777 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERKA  , a

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town and watering-place of Germany, in the
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grand-duchy of Saxe-
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Weimar, on the Ilm and the Weimar-Kranichfeld railway, 8 m . S. of Weimar . Pop . 2300 . It has
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sulphur
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baths, which are largely frequented in the summer . Berka was once celebrated for its Cistercian nunnery, founded in 1251 . Two m. down the Ilm is the curious castle of Burgfarth, partly hewn out of the solid rock .

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