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KATTOWITZ , a See also: town in the Prussian province of See also: Silesia, on the Rawa, near the See also: Russian frontier, 5 M
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S.E. from Beuthen by See also: rail
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Pop
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(1875), 11,352; (1905), 35,772
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There are large iron-See also: works, foundries and machine shops in the town, and near it See also: zinc and See also: anthracite mines
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The growth of.Kattowitz, like that of other places in the same See also: district, has been very rapid, owing to the development of the See also: mineral resources of the neighbour-See also: hood
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In 1815 it was a See also: mere See also: village, and became a town in 1867
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It has monuments to the emperors See also: William I. and
See also: Frederick III
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See G
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Hoff See also: mann, Geschichte der Stadt Kattowitz (Kattowitz, 1895)
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