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