GERA  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, See also:

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

capital of the principality of See also:

• REUSS
• REUSS, EDOUARD GUILLAUME EUGENE (1804–18gr)

Reuss-See also:

• SCHLEIZ

Schleiz (called also Reuss younger See also:

• LINE

line), situated in a valley on the See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks of the See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White See also:

• ELSTER

Elster, 45 M . S.S.W. of See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig on the railway to Probstzella . Pop . (1885) 34,152; (1905) 47,455• It has been mostly rebuilt since a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire in 178o, and the streets are in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general wide and straight, and contain many handsome houses . There are three Evangelical churches and one See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic . Among other noteworthy buildings are the handsome town-See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

hall (1576, afterwards restored) and the See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre (1902) . Its educational establishments include a gymnasium, a commercial and a See also:

• WEAVING

weaving school . The See also:

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

castle of Osterstein, the See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of the princes of Reuss, See also:

• DATES

dates from the 9th See also:

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

century, but has been almost entirely rebuilt in See also:

• MODERN

modern times . Gera is noted for its See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

industrial activity . Its See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries include See also:

• WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool-weaving and See also:

• SPINNING (from O. Eng. spinnen, to spin, cf. Ger. spinnen, &c., the Teut. root is seen, to draw out, cf. span, spider)

spinning, See also:

• DYEING (0. Eng. dedgian, dealt ; Mid. Eng. deyen)

dyeing, See also:

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

iron-See also:

• FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding, the manufacture of See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton and See also:

• SILK

silk goods, machinery, sewing See also:

• MACHINES

machines and See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine oil, See also:

• LEATHER (a word which appears in all Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Leder, Dutch leer or leder, Swed. leder, and in such Celtic forms as Welsh llader)
• LEATHER, ARTIFICIAL

leather and See also:

• TOBACCO

tobacco, and See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing (books and maps) and See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

flower gardening . Gera (in See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

chronicles Geraha) was raised to the See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of a town in the 11th century, at which See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time it belonged to the See also:

• COUNTS

counts of Groitch . In the 12th century it came into the See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of the lords of Reuss .

It was stormed and sacked by the Bohemians in 1450, was two-thirds burned down by the Swedes in 1639 during the See also:

• THIRTY

Thirty Years' See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War, and suffered afterwards from great conflagrations in 1686 and 1780, being in the latter See also:

• YEAR

year almost completely destroyed .