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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 812 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BURG , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in Prussian See also:Saxony, on the See also:river Ihle, and the railway from See also:Berlin to See also:Magdeburg, 14 M. N.E. of the latter. Pop. (1900) 22,432. It is noted for its See also:cloth manufactures and See also:boot-making, which afford employment to a See also:great See also:part of its See also:population. The town belonged originally to the lordship of See also:Querfurt, passed with this into the See also:possession of the archbishops of Magdeburg in 1496, and was ceded in 1635 with other portions of the Magdeburg territories to Saxony; in 1687 it was ceded to See also:Brandenburg. It owes its prosperity to the, large influx of industrious See also:French, See also:Palatinate and Walloon refugees, which took See also:place about the end of the 17th See also:century.

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