LISSA (Polish Lezno)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V16,
Page 776
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
LISSA (Polish Lezno)
, a town in the Prussian province of Posen, 25 M
.
N.E. from Glogau by rail and at the junction of lines to Breslau, Posen and Landsberg
.
Pop
.
(1905) 16,021
.
The chief buildings are the handsome palace, the medieval town- See also: - HALL
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- 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, 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)
, the four churches and the synagogue
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Its manufactures consistchiefly of shoes, machinery, liqueurs and tobacco; it also possesses a large steam flour- See also: - MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
, and carries on a brisk trade in grain and cattle
.
Lissa owes its rise to a number of Moravian Brothers who were banished from Bohemia by the emperor Ferdinand I. in the 16th century and found a refuge in a village on the estate of the Polish family of Leszczynski
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Their settlement received municipal rights in 1561
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During the Thirty Years' War the population was reinforced by other refugees, and Lissa became an important commercial town and the chief seat of the Moravian Brothers in Poland
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Johann Amos Comenius was long rector of the celebrated Moravian school here
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In 1656 and 1707 Lissa was burned down
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See Voigt, Aus Lissas erster BlStezeit (Lissa, 1905), and Sanden, Geschichte der Lissaer Schule (Lissa, 1905)
.
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