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KATTOWITZ

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 697 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KATTOWITZ  , a

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

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