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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 766 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROTTENBURG  , a

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town and episcopal see of Germany, is the
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kingdom of
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Wurttemberg, situated on the
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left
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bank of the
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Neckar, which is here crossed by two bridges connecting the i Both miniatures are reproduced by J . 0 . Westwood in Facsimiles (
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London, 1868) . x Reproduced in Jahreshefte d . Wiirtemb . Altertums Ver. vol. iii . (
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Stuttgart, 1846), pl. viii.
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figs. to and ii . ' See Facsimile, by Comte Auguste de Bastard (Paris, 1883) . ',;The whole case of this much-discussed Psalter, with resumes of the
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principal writings on the subject of facsimiles of the miniatures bearing on the
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evolution of the cithara, will be found in Kathleen Schlesinger's
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Instruments of the Orchestra, pp . 343-82 and pl. iii., vi. and vii . (London, 1909) . ' See Kathleen Schlesinger, op. cit., pp .

334, 338-39 n. and 441-5o . town with the suburb of Ehingen, 7 M. by

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rail S.W. of
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Tubingen . Pop . (1905) 7554 . It is the seat of a
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Roman Catholic bishop, and possesses the
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fine
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Gothic
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cathedral of St Martin; several other churches; an old castle now used as a prison;. and a
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building, formerly a Jesuit monastery and now the residence of the bishop . The chief
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industries are the manufacture of machinery, screws, watches and
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beer, tanning and the cultivation of fruit and hops . Rottenburg passed into the possession of Austria in 1281 and into that of Wurttemberg in 18o5 . Near the town are the remains of the Roman station of Sumalocenna or Salmulocenae .

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