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See also:BRIXEN (Ital. Bressanone) , a small See also:city in the See also:Austrian See also:province of See also:Tirol, and the See also:chief See also:town of the administrative See also:district of Brixen. Pop. (1900) 5767. It is situated in the valley of the Eisack, at the confluence of that stream with the Rienz, and is a station on the See also:Brenner railway, being 34 M. See also:south-See also:east of that pass, and 24 M. See also:north-east of See also:Botzen. The aspect of the city is very ecclesiastical; it is still the see of a See also:bishop, and contains an 18th-See also:century See also:cathedral See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, an episcopal See also:palace and See also:seminary, twelve churches and five monasteries. The see was founded at the end of the 8th century (possibly of the 6th century) at Saben on the rocky heights above the townt of Klausen (some way to the south of Brixen), but in 992 was transferred to Brixen, which, perhaps a See also:Roman station, became later a royal See also:estate, under the name of Prichsna, and in 901 was given by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis the See also:Child to the bishop. In 1027 the bishop received from the See also:emperor See also:Conrad II. very extensive temporal See also:powers, which he only lost to See also:Austria in 1803. The town was surrounded in 1030 by walls. In 1525 it was the See also:scene of the first outbreak of the See also:great peasants' revolt. About 51 M. north of Brixen is the great fortress of Franzensfeste, built 1833-1838, to guard the route over the Brenner and the way to the east up the Pusterthal. (W. A. B.
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