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GEORGSWALDE

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 761 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGSWALDE  , a

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town of Bohemia, Austria, 115 M . N.E. of Prague by
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rail . Pop . (1900) 8131, including Neu-Georgswalde, Wiesenthal and Philippsdorf, which form together a single commune . Georgswalde is one of the
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oldest
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industrial places of Bohemia, and together with the neighbouring town of Rum-
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burg is the
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principal centre of the
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linen industry . The
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village of Philippsdorf, now incorporated with Georgswalde, has become since 1866 a famous place of pilgrimage, owing to the miracles attributed to an image of the Virgin, placed now in a magnificent new church (1885) .

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