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FRAUSTADT (Polish, Wszowa)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 43 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRAUSTADT (
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Polish, Wszowa)  , a
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town of
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Germany, in the Prussian
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province of
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Posen, in a
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flat sandy
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country. dotted with windmills, 50 M . S.S.W. of Posen, on the railway
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Lissa-
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Sagan . Pop . (including a
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garrison) 7500 . It has three Evangelical and two
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Roman
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Catholic churches, a classical school and a teachers'
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seminary; the manufactures include woollen and
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cotton goods, hats,
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morocco
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leather and gloves, and there is a considerable
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trade in
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corn,
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cattle and
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wool .
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Fraustadt was founded by Silesians in 1348, and afterwards belonged to the principality of
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Glogau . Near the town the Swedes under
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Charles XII. defeated the
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Saxons on the 13th of
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February 1706 .

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Polish name is Wschowa, not Wszowa.
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