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SCHWECHAT , a market-See also: town of See also: Austria, in See also: Lower Austria, 5 M
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S.E. of Vienna by See also: rail
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Pop
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(19oo) 8241
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Here is situated the Dreher brewery, the largest in the See also: monarchy; and there are also important smelting and iron See also: works, See also: cotton-spinning, factories of electrical plant, &c
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The meeting at Schwechat of the emperor Leopold I. with Sobieski in 1683, after the liberation of Vienna, is commemorated by an obelisk
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The imperial troops defeated the Hungarian insurgents in a See also: battle fought here in See also: October 1848
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