FRAUENFELD  , the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the Swiss See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)

canton of See also:

• THURGAU (Fr. Thurgovie)

Thurgau, 27 M. by See also:

• RAIL

rail N.E. of See also:

• ZURICH
• ZURICH (Fr. Zurich; Ital. Zurigo)

Zurich or 144 m . W. of See also:

• ROMANSHORN

Romanshorn . It is built on the Murg stream a little above its junction with the Thur . It is a prosperous commercial See also:

• TOWN

town, being situated at the See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting point of several routes, while it possesses several See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

industrial establishments, chiefly concerned with different branches of the See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade . In 1900 its See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population (including the neighbouring villages) was 7761, mainly See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German-speaking, while there were 5563 Protestants to 2188 Romanists . Frauenfeld is the See also:

• ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

artillery See also:

• DEPOT (from the Fr. depot, Lat. depositum, laid down; the French accent marks are usually dispensed with in English)

depot for See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North-See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland . The upper town is the older See also:

• PART

part, and centres See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle, of which the See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower See also:

• DATES

dates from the loth See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, though the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest is of a later See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period . Both stood on See also:

• LAND

land belonging to the See also:

• ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
• ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
• ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
• ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
• ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)

abbot of See also:

• REICHENAU

Reichenau, who, with the See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

count of Kyburg, founded the town, which is first mentioned in 1255 . The abbot retained all manorial rights till 1803, while the See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of the Kyburgers (who were the " protectors" of Reichenau) passed to the Habsburgs in 1273, and were seized by the Swiss in 1460 with the rest of the Thurgau . In 1712 the town succeeded See also:

• BADEN
• BADEN, GRAND DUCHY OF

Baden in See also:

• AARGAU (Fr. Argovie)

Aargau as the meeting-See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of the Federal See also:

• DIET

Diet, and continued to be the capital of the See also:

• CONFEDERATION (Fr. confederation, Lat. confoederatio, from foedus, a league, foederare, to form a league)

Confederation till its transformation in 1798 . In 1799 it was successively occupied by the Austrians and the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French . The old Capuchin See also:

• CONVENT (Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)

convent (1591—1848) is now occupied as a vicarage by the Romanist See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest .

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