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SCHWECHAT

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 391 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHWECHAT  , a

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

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