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WITTEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 764 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WITTEN  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Westphalia, favourably situated among the
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coal-fields of the
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Ruhr, 14 M . E. of
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Essen and 15 M . N.E. of
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Elberfeld by
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rail . Pop . (1905) 35,841 . It is an important seat of the steel industry . Other
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industries are the making of
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soap, chemicals and
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beer . Witten was made a town in 1825 . See Hassel, Wittener Ortskunde and Ortsgesetze (Witten, 1903) .

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