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JEVER
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Page 360
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JEVER , a See also: town of See also: Germany, in the See also: grand-duchy of See also: Oldenburg, 13 M. by See also: rail N.W. of Wilhelmshaven, and connected with the See also: North See also: Sea by a navigable canal
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Pop
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(1901), 5486
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The chief See also: industries are See also: weaving, spinning, dyeing, See also: brewing and milling; there is also a See also: trade in horses and cattle
.
The fathers (Die Getreuen) of the town used to send an See also: annual birthday See also: present of Ioi plovers' eggs to Bismarck, with a dedication in verse
.
The See also: castle of Jever was built by See also: Prince Edo Wiemken (d
.
1410), the ruler of Jeverland, a populous See also: district which in 1575 came under the See also: rule of the See also: dukes of Oldenburg
.
In 1603 it passed to the See also: house of See also: Anhalt and was later the See also: property of the empress See also: Catherine II. of See also: Russia, a member of this See also: family
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In 1814 it came again into the possession of Oldenburg
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See D
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Hohnholz, Aus fevers Vorgangenheit (Dever, 1886) ; Hagena, Jeverland bis zum Jahr 1500 (Oldenburg, 1902) ; and F
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W
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Riemann, Geschichte See also: des Jeverlandes (Dever, 1896)
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