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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 33 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OHLAU  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of
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Silesia, 16 m. by
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rail S.E. of Breslau, on the
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left
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bank of the Oder . Pop . (1905) 9233 . It has two
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Roman Catholic and two Evangelical churches, and a castle . Ohlau is the centre of a
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tobacco-growing
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district and has manufactures of tobacco and cigars, machinery,
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beer, shoes and bricks . It became a town in 1291 and passed to Prussia in 1742 . In the 17th and 18th centuries it was often the residence of the dukes of
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Brieg and of the Sobieski
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family . See Schulz, A us Ohlaus Vergangenheit (Ohlau, 1902) .

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