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