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MEIDERICH

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 82 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MEIDERICH  , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:province, 21 m. by See also:rail N.E. of See also:Ruhrort, whose See also:river See also:harbour is in See also:great See also:part within its confines . Pop . (1905), 40,822 . See also:Iron and See also:steel See also:works, See also:coal-mines, saw-See also:mills, brickworks, and See also:machine-shops furnish the See also:principal occupations of the inhabitants . Meiderich, which is first mentioned in 874, was See also:united with See also:Duisburg in 1905 . See Graeber, Tausendjahrige Geschichte von Meiderich (1893) .

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