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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 58 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ANKLAM , or AxCLAM, a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany in the Prussian See also:

province of See also:

POMERANIA (German, Pommern)

Pomerania, on the Peene, 5 M. from its mouth in the Kleines Haff, and J3 M. N.W. of See also:

STETTIN

Stettin, by the railway to See also:

STRALSUND

Stralsund. Pop. (1900) 14,602. The fortifications of Anklam were dismantled in 1762 and have not since been restored, al-though the old walls are still See also:

STANDING

standing; formerly, however, it was a town of considerable military importance, which suffered severely during the See also:

THIRTY

Thirty Years' and the Seven Years' See also:

WARS

Wars; and this fact, together with the repeated ravages of See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire and of the See also:

PLAGUE (in Gr. Xotµos; in Lat. pestis, pestilentia)

plague, has made its See also:

HISTORY

history more eventful than is usually the See also:

case with towns of the same See also:

SIZE

size. It does not possess any remarkable buildings, although it contains several, private as well as public, that are of a See also:

QUAINT (O. Fr. cointe, from Lat. cognitus, known, probably influenced by association with Lat. corn plus, neat)

quaint and picturesque See also:

style of See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture. The See also:

church of St See also:

Mary (12th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century) has a See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower, 335 ft. high. The See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries consist of See also:

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

iron-foundries and factories for See also:

SUGAR

sugar and See also:

SOAP

soap; and there is a military school. The Peene is navigable up to the town, which has a considerable See also:

trade in its own manufactures, as well as in the produce of the surrounding See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, while some See also:

SHIPBUILDING

shipbuilding is carried on in wharves on the See also:

RIVER

river. Anklam, formerly Tanglim, was originally a Slav fortress; it obtained civic rights in 1244 and joined the Hanseatic See also:

LEAGUE

League. In 1648 it passed to See also:

Sweden, but in 1676 was retaken by See also:

Frederick See also:

William I. of See also:

BRANDENBURG

Brandenburg, and after being plundered by the Russians in 1713 was ceded to See also:

Prussia by the See also:

peace of See also:

STOCKHOLM

Stockholm in 1720.

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