LIESTAL
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V16,
Page 599
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
LIESTAL
, the See also:capital (since 1833) of the See also:half See also:canton of See also:Basel-Stadt in See also:Switzerland
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It is a well-built but uninteresting See also:industrial See also:town, situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the Ergolz stream, and is the most populous town in the entire canton of Basel, after Basel itself
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By See also:rail it is qi--, m
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S.E. of Basel, and 15; M
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N.W. of Often
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In the 15th-See also:century town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall (See also:Rat/taus) is preserved the See also:golden drinking See also:cup of See also:Charles the Bold, See also:duke of See also:Burgundy, which was taken at the See also:battle of See also:Nancy in 1477
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In 'coo the See also:population was 54o3, all See also:German-speaking and mainly Protestants
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The town was sold in 1302 by its See also:lord to the See also:bishop of Basel who, in 1400, sold it to the See also:city of Basel, at whose hands it suffered much in the Peasants' See also:War of 1653, and so consented gladly to the separation of 1833
.
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