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LEOBEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 441 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEOBEN  , a

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town in Styria, Austria, 44 M . N.W. of
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Graz by
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rail . Pop . (190o) 10,204 . It is situated on the Mur, and
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part of its old walls and towers still remain . It has a well-known academy of
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mining and a number of technical
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schools . Its extensive iron-
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works and trade in iron are a consequence of its position on the verge of the important lignite deposits of Upper Styria and in the neighbourhood of the iron mines and furnaces of Vordernberg and Eisenerz . On the 18th of
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April 1797 a preliminary peace was concluded here between Austria and France, which led to the treaty of Campo-Formio .

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