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STERNBERG , a See also:town of See also:Austria, in See also:Moravia, 73 M . N.E. of See also:Brunn by See also:rail . Pop . (1900), 15,195, almost exclusively See also:German . It is the See also:chief seat of the Moravian See also:cotton See also:industry, and it also carries on the manufacture of See also:linen, stockings, See also:liqueurs, See also:sugar and bricks . See also:Fruit, especially cherries, and See also:tobacco are grown in the neighbourhood . Sternberg is said to have grown up under the shelter of a See also:castle founded by Yaroslav of Sternberg on the site of his victory over the See also:Mongols in 1241 . |
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