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GREIFENBERG

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 577 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREIFENBERG  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Pomerania, on the Rega, 45 M . N.E. of
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Stettin on the railway to Kolberg . Pop . (1905) 7208 . It has two Evangelical churches (among them that of St Mary, dating from 13th century), two ancient gateways, a powder tower and a gymnasium . The manufacture of
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machines, stoves and bricks are the
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principal
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industries . Greifenberg possessed municipal rights as early as 1262, and in the 14th and 15th centuries had a considerable
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shipping trade, but it lost much of its prosperity during the
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Thirty Years' War . See Riemann, Geschichte der Stadt Greifenberg (1862) .

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