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LODZ (L6dz; more correctly Lodzia)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 862 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LODZ (L6dz; more correctly Lodzia)  , a
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town of
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Russian Poland, in the government of Piotrk6w, 82 m. by
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rail S.W. of Warsaw . It is situated on the Lodz plateau, which at the beginning of the 19th century was covered with impenetrable forests . Now it is the centre of a
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group of
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industrial towns—Zgert, Leczyca,
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Pabianice, Konstantinov and Aleksandrov . Chiefly owing to a considerable immigration of German capitalists and workers, Lodz has grown with
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American-like rapidity . It consists principally of one main street, 7 M. long, and is a sort of
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Polish Manchester, manufacturing cottons, woollens and mixed stuffs, with chemicals,
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beer, machinery and
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silk, One of the very few educational institutions is a professional industrial school . The population, which was only 5o,000 in 1872, reached 351.570 in 1900; the Poles numbering about 37%, Germans 4o% and Jews 221% .

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