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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 493 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MALMEDY  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine Province, lying in a wild and deep basin, on the Warche, 20 M . S. of
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Aix-la-Chapelle by
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rail via Eupen . It contains two
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Roman Catholic churches, a
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modern town-hall and a classical school . Its
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industries include tanning, dyeing and paper-making . Pop . (1900), 4680 . Malmedy was famous for its
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Benedictine abbey, founded about 675, which was
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united with that of Stablo, the abbot of the joint house being a prince of the
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empire . In 1802 the lands of the abbey passed to France, and in 1815 they were divided between Prussia and
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Netherlands . See Kellen, Malmedy and die preussische Wallonie (
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Essen, 1897) .

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