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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 430 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DORNBIRN , a township in the See also:

Austrian See also:province of the See also:Vorarlberg, on the right See also:bank of the Dornbirner Ach, at the point where it flows out of the hilly region of the Bregenzerwald into the broad valley of the See also:Rhine, on its way to the See also:Lake of See also:Constance. It is by See also:rail 71 m. S. of See also:Bregenz,,and 15 M. N. of See also:Feldkirch. It is the most populous See also:town in the Vorarlberg, its See also:population in 1900 being 13,052. The name Dornbirn is a collective appellation for four villages—Dornbirn, Hatlerdorf, Oberdorf and Haselstauden —which straggle over a distance of about 3 m. It is the See also:chief See also:industrial centre in the Vorarlberg, the regulated Dornbirner Ach furnishing See also:motive See also:power for several factories for See also:cotton See also:spinning and See also:weaving, worked See also:muslin, See also:dyeing, See also:iron-See also:founding and so on. (W. A. B.

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