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YPSILANTI

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 942 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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YPSILANTI , a

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CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Washtenaw

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COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

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Michigan, U.S.A., on the

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RIVER

river, 30 M . W. by S. of

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DETROIT

Detroit . Pop . (1900) 7378; ;1904) 7587; (1910) 6230 . It is served by the Michigan Central and the

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SHORE

Shore & Michigan

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SOUTHERN

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RAILWAYS

railways, and is the seat of the Michigan

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State Normal

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COLLEGE (Collegium)

College (1849) . There are various manufactures . Ypsilanti was laid out and named in

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HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

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DEMETRIUS

Demetrius Ypsilanti, the

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Greek patriot, in 1825; it was incorporated as a

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VILLAGE

village in 1832, and chartered as a city in 1858 .

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