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SANKT JOHANN

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 152 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SANKT JOHANN  , a

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town of
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Germany, in the Prussian
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Rhine
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province, on the right
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bank of the
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Saar, opposite Saarbrticken with which it is connected by three
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bridges . It is 49 M . N.E. from
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Metz and at the junction of lines from
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Trier, Bingerbrfick and
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Zweibrucken . Pop . (1905) 24,140 . Sankt Johann is the seat of extensive
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industries, the
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chief being the manufacture of railway plant and machinery,
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iron-
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founding,
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wire-
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drawing and
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brewing; its rapid
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industrial development is due mainly to the extensive railway
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system of which it is the centre . Sankt Johann obtains its name from a
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chapel erected here . From 1321 to 1859 it formed a single town with
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Saarbrucken, and then was
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united to
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form one
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municipality with Saarbrticken and Malstatt-Burbach (united
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population, 90,000) .

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