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BERAUN (Czech Beroun)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 764 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERAUN (See also:Czech Beroun) , a See also:town of Bohemia, See also:Austria, 27 M. S.W. of See also:Prague by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 9693, mostly Czech. It is situated at the confluence of the Beraun with the Litawa See also:river, and is the seat of important textile See also:industry, See also:sugar-refining, See also:corn-milling and See also:brewing. See also:Lime-kilns and the manufacture of See also:cement, and smelting and See also:iron See also:works are carried on in the environs. Beraun is a See also:place of immemorial antiquity. It was originally called na Brode (by the See also:ford), and received the name of See also:Bern, Berun or See also:Verona in the 13th See also:century, when it obtained the privileges of a See also:city from the See also:emperor See also:Charles IV., who was specially attached to the place, calling it " Verona mea." Under his patronage the town rapidly prospered. In 1421 'Lizka stormed the town, which later on was retaken and devastated by the troops of See also:Duke See also:Leopold, See also:bishop of See also:Passau. During the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War it was sacked by the Imperialists, the See also:Saxons and the Swedes in turn; and in the first Silesian war the same See also:fate befell it at the hands of the See also:French and Bavarians.

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