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ROMANSHORN

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 583 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROMANSHORN  , an important commercial

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town in the Swiss canton of Thurgau . It is situated on the west
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shore of the lake of Constance, and by
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rail is 511 M . N.E. of Zurich, 121 M . S.E. of Constance, and 10 m . N.W. of
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Rorschach . In 1900 its population was 4577, mostly German-speaking, while there were 3093 Protestants to 1478 Romanists . Originally a small fishing
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village, it belonged to the abbot of St Gall from 1432 to 1798, when it became
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part of the canton of Thurgau . In 1856 the railway from Romanshorn to Zurich was opened, and this vastly increased the commercial importance of Romanshorn . Nowadays it is the centre of a
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great transit trade, as it communicates, by means of the lake, with the
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principal towns on its shores . The corn trade and that in
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timber are among 'the most important, while there are many
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industrial establishments . It is essentially a
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modern commercial centre .

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