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ELTZ

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 300 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ELTZ  , a small

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river of Germany, a
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left
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bank tributary of the Mosel . It rises in the
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Eifel range, and, after a course of 5 m., joins the latter river at Moselkern . Just above its confluence stands the romantic castle of Eltz, crowning a rocky
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summit 900 ft. high, and famous as being one of the best preserved
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medieval strongholds of Germany . It is the ancestral seat of the
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counts of Eltz and contains numerous antiquities . See Roth, Geschichte der Herren and Grafen zu Eltz (2 vols., Mainz, 1889-189o) .

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