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PYRITZ

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 693 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PYRITZ  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Pomerania, 16 m . S.W. of
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Stargard by the railway to Ciistrin . Pop . (1905), 8600 . It is still surrounded by walls with towers, and has two Evangelical churches . There are small manufactures of machinery, bricks and
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sugar . Excellent wheat is grown in the vicinity, while another industry is the breeding of cattle . Near the town is a fountain, erected to mark the spring in which
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Otto, bishop of
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Bamberg, baptized the first Pomeranian converts to
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Christianity in 1124 . Pyritz became a town in 1150 .

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