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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 812 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BURG  , a

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

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