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KROTOSCHIN (in Polish, Krotoszyn)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 929 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KROTOSCHIN (in
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Polish, Krotoszyn)
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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Posen, 32 M . S.E. of Posen . Pop . (1900), 12,373 . It has three churches, a synagogue, steam saw-mills, and a steam brewery, and carries on trade in grain and seeds . The castle of Krotoschin is the chief place of a mediatized principality which was formed in 1819 out of the domains of the Prussian
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crown and was granted to the prince of Thurn and Taxis in compensation for the relinquishment by him of the monopoly of the Prussian postal
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system, formerly held by his
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family .

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