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BISCHOFSWERDA

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 992 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BISCHOFSWERDA  , a

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town of Germany, in the
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kingdom of Saxony, on the Wesenitz, and at the junction of the
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Dresden-
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Gorlitz and Bischofswerda-
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Zittau
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railways in the governmental
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district of Bautzen . Pop . (1905) 7465 . There are
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cloth, artificial flower, and
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cigar factories, glass-
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works, potteries, and in the neighbourhood large granite quarries . It is famous as the scene of a
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battle, on the r 2th of May 1813, between the French and the Allies after
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Napoleon's retreat from Moscow . It was the residence of Benno, bishop of
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Meissen, in the firth century, and the " Bishop's Road " still runs from here to Meissen .

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