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ZWOLLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 1064 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZWOLLE  , the

capital of the province of Overysel, Holland, on the Zwarte
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Water, and a junction station 242 M . N.. of
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Harderwyk . Pop . (1905) 23,773 . It is the centre of the whole
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northern and eastern canal systems, and by means of the short canal, the 1A'illemsvaart, which joins the Zwarte Water and the I"sel, has
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regular steamboat communication with
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Kampen and Amsterdam . The Groote Kerk, of St Michael (first
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half of the 15th century) occupies the site of an earlier church of which an interesting 11th-century bas-
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relief remains . The church contains a richly carved pulpit, the
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work of Adam Straes
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van W'eilborch about 1620, and there is besides some good
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carving and a
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fine
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organ (1721) . The
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Roman Catholic church, also dedicated to St Michael,
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dates from the end of the 14th century . The modernized
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town hall was originally built in 1448 . Mention shculd also be made of the Sassen Poort, one of the old city gates; a gild-house (1J71); the provincial government offices, containing the archives; and a museum of antiquities and natural
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history . Three miles from Zwolle, on a slight eminence,called the Agnietenberg, or hill of St
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Agnes, once stood the Augustinian convent in which Thomas a Kempis spent the greatest
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part of his
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life and died in 1471 . Zwolle has a consider-able trade by
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river, a large fish market, and the most important cattle market in Holland after
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Rotterdam .

The more important

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industries comprise cotton manufactures, iron
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works, boat-
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building, dyeing and
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bleaching, tanning, rope-making and salt-making .

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