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PRERAU (Czech, Prerov)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 280 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRERAU (Czech, Prerov)  , a
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town of Austria, in Moravia, 56 m . E.N.E. of Brunn by
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rail . Pop . (1900), 16,738, chiefly Czech . It is one of the
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oldest towns in Moravia, and possesses a
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Gothic town-hall and an old castle, once occupied by Matthias Corvinus . It has an important
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cloth industry, and manufactures of
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sugar, ropes, machinery and agricultural implements . Prerau was at one time the chief seat of the Moravian Brethren .

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