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DOBSINA (Ger. Dobschau)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 352 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOBSINA (Ger. Dobschau)  , a
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town of Hungary, 165 m . N.E. of
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Budapest by
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rail . Pop . (1900) 5109 . It is situated in the county of Gomor, at the
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foot of the Radzim (3200 ft. high) in the central Carpathians, and lies to the south of the beautiful Straczena valley, watered by the
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river Gollnitz, and enclosed on all sides by mountains . In the vicinity are mines of iron, cobalt, copper and mercury, some of them being very ancient . But the most remarkable feature is a large cavern some 3* M . N.W., in which is an icefield nearly 2 acres in extent, containing formations which are at once most curious and strikingly beautiful . This cavern, which lies in the above-mentioned Straczena valley, was discovered in 187o . The place was founded in the first
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half of the 14th century by German miners .

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