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ENSCHEDE

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 653 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ENSCHEDE  , a

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town in the province of Overysel, Holland, near the Prussian frontier, and a junction station 5 M. by
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rail S.E. of Hengelo . Pop . (1900) 23,141 . It is important as the centre of the flourishing cotton-spinning and
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weaving
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industries of the Twente
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district; while by the railway via Gronau and
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Koesfeld to
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Dortmund it is in
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direct communication with the Westphalian coalfields . Enschede possesses several churches, an
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industrial trade school, and a large park intended for the benefit of the working classes . About two-thirds of the town was burnt down in 1862 .

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