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GOCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 169 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOCH  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, on the Niers, 8 m . S. of Cleves at the junction of the
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railways Cologne-Zevenaar and Boxtel-Wesel . Pop . (1905) 10,232 . It has a
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Protestant and a
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Roman Catholic church and manufactures of brushes, plush goods, cigars and
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margarine . In the
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middle ages it was the seat of a large trade in
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linen . Goch became a town in 1231 and belonged to the dukes of Gelderland and later to the dukes of Cleves .

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