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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 58 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEINE  , a

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town of
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Germany, in the Prussian
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province of
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Hanover, 16 m. by
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rail N.W. of
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Brunswick, on the railway to Hanover and
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Hamburg . Pop . (1905), 15,421 . The town has a
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Roman
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Catholic and a
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Protestant
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church and several
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schools . Its
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industries include
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iron and
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steel
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works, breweries, distilleries and brickyards, and the manufacture of
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starch,
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sugar,
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malt, machinery and artificial manure . There are also large
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horse and
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cattle markets held here . Peine was at one
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time a strongly fortified
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place, and until 1803 belonged to the bishopric of
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Hildesheim .

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