LEMERY
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V16,
Page 410
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
LEMERY
, a See also:town of the See also:province of See also:Batangas, Luzon, See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip-See also:pine Islands, on the Gulf of See also:Balayan and the Pansipit See also:river, opposite See also:Taal (with which it is connected by a See also:bridge), and about 50 M
.
S. of See also:Manila
.
Pop. of the See also:municipality (1903) 11,150
.
It has a See also:fine See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church and See also:convent
.
Lemery is situated on a See also:plain in a See also:rich agricultural See also:district, which produces See also:rice, See also:Indian See also:corn, See also:sugar and See also:cotton, and in which horses and See also:cattle are bred
.
It is also a See also:port for See also:coasting vessels, and has an important See also:trade with various parts of the See also:archipelago
.
The See also:language is Tagalog
.
See also:Russia)
.
During the whole See also:period of See also:Polish supremacy it was a most important See also:city, and after the fall of See also:Constantinople it greatly See also:developed its trade with the See also:East
.
In 1648 and 1655 it was besieged by the See also:Cossacks, and in 1672 by the See also:Turks
.
See also:Charles See also:YII. of See also:Sweden captured it in 1704
.
In 1848 it was bombarded
.
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