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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 132 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EIDER , a See also:

river of See also:Prussia, in the See also:province of See also:Schleswig-See also:Holstein. It rises to the See also:south of See also:Kiel, in See also:Lake Redder, flows first See also:north, then See also:west (with wide-sweeping curves), and after a course of 117 M. enters the North See also:Sea at Tonning. It is navigable up to See also:Rendsburg, and is embanked through the marshes across which it runs in its See also:lower course. Since the reign of See also:Charlemagne, the Eider (originally Agyr D0—Neptune's See also:gate) was known as Romani See also:terminus imperii and was recognized as the boundary of the See also:Empire in 1027 by the See also:emperor See also:Conrad II., the founder of the Salian See also:dynasty. In the controversy arising out of the Schleswig-Holstein Question, which culminated in the See also:war of See also:Austria and Prussia against See also:Denmark in 1864, the Eider gave its name to the " Eider Danes," the intransigeant Danish party which maintained that Schleswig (Sonderjylland, South See also:Jutland) was by nature and See also:historical tradition an integral See also:part of Den-See also:mark. The Eider See also:Canal (Eider-Kanal), which was constructed between 1777 and 1784, leaves the Eider at the point where the river turns to the west and enters the See also:Bay of Kiel at Holtenau. It was hampered by six sluices, but was used annually by some 4000 vessels, and until its See also:conversion in 1887-1895 into the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal afforded the only See also:direct connexion between the North Sea and the Baltic.

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