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BEUTHEN, or OBERBEUTHEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 835 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEUTHEN, or OBERBEUTHEN  , a
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town of Germany, in the extreme south-east of Prussian
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Silesia, on the railway between Breslau and Cracow, 121 m . S.E. of the former . Pop . (1905) 60,078 . It is the centre of the
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mining
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district of Upper Silesia,' and its population is mainly engaged in such operations and in iron and
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zinc smelting . Beuthen is an old town, and was formerly the capital of the Bohemian duchy of Beuthen, which in 162o was ultimately granted, as a
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free lordship of the
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Empire, to Lazarus, Baron Henckel von Donnersmarck, by the emperor Ferdinand II., and parts of which, now mediatized, are held by two branches of the
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counts Henckel von Donnersmarck .

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