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BRODY

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 626 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRODY  , a

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town of Austria, in Galicia, 62 m . E. of Lemberg by
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rail . Pop . (1900) 17,360, of which about two-thirds are Jews . It is situated near the
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Russian frontier, and has been one of the most important commercial centres in Galicia, especially for the trade with Russia . But since 1879, when its charter as a
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free commercial city was withdrawn, its trade has also greatly diminished . Brody was created a town in 1684, and was raised to the rank of a free commercial city in 1779 .

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