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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 925 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AURICH , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hanover, See also:chief town of the See also:district of See also:East See also:Friesland, on the See also:Ems-See also:Jade See also:canal, 18 m. N.W. from See also:Emden by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 6013. It is built in the Dutch See also:style, and lies in a sandy but fertile See also:plain, surrounded by pleasant promenades which have taken the See also:place of the old fortifications. It has a See also:palace, formerly the See also:residence of the See also:counts of East Friesland and now used as See also:government offices, a See also:Roman See also:Catholic and two See also:Protestant churches, a gymnasium, and four See also:libraries. There are breweries and small manufactories of See also:paper and See also:tobacco. See also:Close by is the Upstallsboom, the See also:hill of See also:oath and See also:liberty, where every See also:year at Whitsuntide representatives of the seven Frisian See also:coast lands assembled to deliberate. See Wiarda, Bruchstacke zur Geschichte der Stadt Aurich (Emden, 1835).

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