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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 763 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ALTENA , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany, in the Prussian See also:

province of See also:

Westphalia, on the See also:

RIVER

river Lenne, 38 m. S.S.E. from See also:

DORTMUND

Dortmund. Pop. (1900) 12,769. It consists of a single See also:

street, winding up a deep valley for about 3 M. There are three churches, a museum, high grade and popular See also:

SCHOOLS

schools. Its hardware See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries are important, and embrace See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron See also:

ROLLING

rolling, the manufacture of See also:

FINE

fine See also:

WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire, needles, springs and See also:

SILVER

silver ornaments. On the neighbouring Schlossberg is the ancestral See also:

castle of the See also:

COUNTS

counts of La Marck, ancestors, on the See also:

FEMALE

female See also:

side, of the Prussian royal See also:

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