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KAMMIN, or CAMMIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 646 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KAMMIN, or CAMMIN  , a
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town in the Prussian province of Pomerania, 22 M. from the Baltic, on the Kamminsche Bodden, a lake connected with the sea by the Dievenow . Pop . (19o5), 5923 . Among its four Evangelical churches, the
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cathedral and the church of St Mary are noteworthy . Iron-founding and
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brewing are carried on in the town, which has also some fishing and
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shipping . There is steamer communication with
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Stettin, about 40 M . S.S.W . Kammin is of Wendish origin, and obtained municipal privileges in 1274 . From about 1200 till 1628 it was the seat of a bishopric, which at the latter date became a secular principality, being in 1648 incorporated with
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Brandenburg . See Kiichen, Geschichte der Stadt Kammin (Kammin, 1885) .

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