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NIKOLSBURG (Czech, Mikulov)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 691 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NIKOLSBURG (Czech, Mikulov)  , a
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town of Austria, in Moravia, 53 M . S. of Briinn by
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rail . Pop . (1900) 8091 . It is situated at the
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foot of the Polau Mountains and near the border of
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Lower Austria . It possesses a chateau of Prince Dietrichstein-Mensdorff, which contains an extensive library, with some valuable
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manuscripts . The Heiliger Berg, in the immediate vicinity, has sixteen chapels, and a church in the
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Byzantine style . The
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principal resources are viticulture, the manufacture of
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cloth, and trade in lime and
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limestone . On the 31st of December 1621 peace was concluded here between the emperor Ferdinand II. and Bethlen Gabor, prince of Transylvania; and on the 26th of
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July 1866 a preliminary treaty of peace between the Prussians and the Austrians was signed here .

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