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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 41 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BLANKENBURG . (1) A See also:

TOWN

town and See also:

HEALTH

health resort of See also:

Germany, in the duchy of See also:

Brunswick, at the N. See also:

FOOT

foot of the Harz Mountains, 12 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail S.W. from See also:

HALBERSTADT

Halberstadt. Pop. (1901) 10,173. It has been in large See also:

PART

part rebuilt since a 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 in 1836, and possesses a See also:

castle, with various collections, a museum of antiquities, an old town See also:

HAIL (O. Eng. kcegl and hagol, 1 cf. the cognate Teutonic hagel, as in German, Dutch, Swedish, &c.; the Gr. K&XX17E, pebble, is probably allied)

hail and churches. There are See also:

PINE (Lat. Pinus, Gr. srlrur)

pine-See also:

NEEDLE (O. Eng. ncedl; the word appears in various forms in Teutonic languages, Ger. Nadel, Dutch naal, the root being ne-, to sew, cf. Ger. nahen, and probably Lat. nere, to spin, Gr. vi)ats, spinning)

needle See also:

BATHS

baths and a See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital for See also:

NERVOUS

nervous diseases. Gardening is a speciality. In the vicinity is a cliff or See also:

ridge of See also:

rock called Teufelsmauer (See also:

DEVIL (Gr. &a,3oXos, " slanderer," from &ctflisXX sty, to slander)

Devil's See also:

wall), from which See also:

FINE

fine views are obtained across the See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain and into the deep See also:

GORGES, SIR FERDINANDO (c. 1566-1647)

gorges of the Harz Mountains. (2) Another BLANKENBURG, also a health-resort, is situated in Schwarzburg-See also:

RUDOLSTADT

Rudolstadt, Thuringia, at the confluence of the See also:

rivers Rinne and Schwarza, and at the entrance of the Schwarzatal. Its environs are charming, and to the See also:

north of it, on an See also:

EMINENCE (Lat. eminentia)

eminence, rise the fine ruins of the castle of Greifenstein, built by the See also:

German See also:

king See also:

Henry I., and from 1275 to 1583 the seat of a See also:

CADET (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. capitettum, a diminutive of caput, head, through the Provencal form capdet)

cadet See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the See also:

COUNTS

counts of Schwarzburg.

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