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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 743 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUERFURT  , a

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town of
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Germany, in the
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province of Prussian
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Saxony, situated in a fertile
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country on the Querne, 18 m . W. from
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Merseburg, on a
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branch
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line from Oberroblingen . Pop . (1905) 884, Its
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chief
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industries are
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sugar-refining,
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lime-burning and
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brewing . Querfurt was for some
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time the
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capital of a principality which had an
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area of nearly 200 sq. m. and a
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population of about 20,000 . The ruling
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family having become
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extinct in 1496, it passed to that of
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Mansfeld . In 1635, by the
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peace of
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Prague, it was ceded to the elector of Saxony,
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John
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George I., who handed it over to his son
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Augustus of
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Saxe-
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Weissenfels; but in 1746 it was again
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united with electoral Saxony . It was incorporated with
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Prussia in 1815 . See
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Schneider, Querfurter Stadt- and Kreischronik(Querfurt,1902) .

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