See also:

• GNESEN (Polish, Gniezno)

GNESEN (See also:

• POLISH

Polish, Gniezno)  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, in the Prussian See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• POSEN
• POSEN (Polish Poznan)

Posen, in an undulating and fertile See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, on the Wrzesnia, 30 M . E.N.E. of Posen by the railway to See also:

• THORN (O. Eng. porn, cf. Du. doorn, Ger. Dorn, &c)
• THORN (Polish Torun)

Thorn . Pop . (1905) 23,727 . Besides the See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral, a handsome See also:

• GOTHIC

Gothic edifice with twin towers, which contains the remains of St See also:

• ADALBERT (originally VOYTECH), (c. 950-997)
• ADALBERT, or ADELBERT (c. 1000-1072)

Adalbert, there are eight See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic churches, a See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, a See also:

• SYNAGOGUE (avvaywyii)
• SYNAGOGUE, UNITED

synagogue, a clerical See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary and a See also:

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

convent of the Franciscan nuns . Among the See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries are See also:

• CLOTH

cloth and See also:

• LINEN

linen See also:

• WEAVING

weaving, See also:

• BREWING

brewing and distilling . A See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse and See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market is held here annually . See also:

• GNESEN (Polish, Gniezno)

Gnesen is one of the See also:

• OLDEST

oldest towns in the former See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom of See also:

• POLAND (Polish Polska, Ger. Polen), (see POLAND, RUSSIAN, below)
• POLAND, RUSSIAN

Poland . Its name, Gniezno, signifies " See also:

• NEST

nest," and points to See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• POLISH

Polish traditions . The cathedral is believed to have been founded towards the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of the 9th See also:

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

century, and, having received the bones of St Adalbert, it was visited in 5000 by the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• OTTO

Otto III., who made it the seat of an See also:

• ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop . Here, until 1320, the See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings of Poland were crowned; and the archbishop, since 1416 See also:

• PRIMATE (from Low Lat. primas=one who held the first place, primas partes)

primate of Poland, acted as See also:

• PROTECTOR

protector pending the See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of a new See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king . In 1821 the see of Posen was founded and the archbishop removed his See also:

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

residence thither, though its cathedral See also:

• CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter still remains at Gnesen .

After a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

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

period of decay the town revived after 1815, when it came under the See also:

• RULE

rule of See also:

• PRUSSIA
• PRUSSIA (Ger. Preussen; Lat. Borussia)

Prussia . See S . Karwowski, Gniezno (Posen, 1892) .