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DEMMIN

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town of See also:Germany, See also:kingdom of See also:Prussia, on the navigable See also:river Peene (which in the immediate neighbourhood receives the Trebel and the Tollense), 72 M. W.N.W. of See also:Stettin, on the See also:Berlin-See also:Stralsund railway. Pop. (1905) 12,541. It has manufactures of textiles, besides breweries, distilleries and tanneries, and an active See also:trade in See also:corn and See also:timber. vm—i The town is of Slavonian origin and of considerable antiquity, and was a See also:place of importance in the See also:time of See also:Charlemagne. It was besieged by a See also:German See also:army in 1148, and captured by See also:Henry the See also:Lion in 1164. In the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War Demmin was the See also:object of frequent conflicts; and even after the See also:peace of See also:Westphalia was taken and retaken in the contest between the electoral See also:prince and the Swedes. It passed to Prussia in 1720, and its fortifications were dismantled in 1759. In 1807 several engagements took place in the vicinity between the See also:French and Russians.

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