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MEININGEN
, a See also:town of See also:Germany, See also:capital of the duchy of See also:Saxe-Meiningen, romantically situated in forests on the right See also:bank of the Werra, 40 M
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S. of See also:Eisenach by See also:rail
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Pop
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(1905), 15,989
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It consists of an old town and several handsome suburbs, but much of the former has been rebuilt since a See also:fire in 1874
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The See also:chief See also:building is the Elisabethenburg, or the old ducal See also:palace, containing several collections; it was built mainly about 168o, although See also:part of it is much older
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Other buildings are the Henneberger Hans with a collection of antiquities, and the town See also: Dobner, Bausteine zu einer Geschichte der Stadt Meiningen (Meiningen, 1902) . See Bacher, A gada der Tannaiten, vol . 11. ch. i . ; See also:Graetz, See also:History of the See also:Jews (Eng. trans.), vol . 11. ch. xvi . ; Jewish Encyclopedia (whence some of the above cited sayings are quoted), viii . 432-435 . On See also:Meir's See also:place in the history of the See also:fable, see J . See also:Jacobs, The Fables of See also:Aesop, i . 111, &c . (see See also:Index s.v.) . (I . A.)-'v . |
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