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BURG , a See also: town of See also: Germany, in Prussian See also: Saxony, on the See also: river Ihle, and the railway from Berlin to See also: Magdeburg, 14 M
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N.E. of the latter
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Pop
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(1900) 22,432
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It is noted for its See also: cloth manufactures and See also: boot-making, which afford employment to a See also: great See also: part of its population
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The town belonged originally to the lordship of See also: Querfurt, passed with this into the possession of the archbishops of Magdeburg in 1496, and was ceded in 1635 with other portions of the Magdeburg territories to Saxony; in 1687 it was ceded to See also: Brandenburg
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It owes its prosperity to the, large influx of industrious French, See also: Palatinate and Walloon refugees, which took place about the end of the 17th century
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