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EUPEN (Fr. Neau)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 892 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUPEN (Fr. Neau) , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:province, in a beautiful valley at the confluence of the Helle and Vesdre, 9 M. S. of See also:Aix-la-Chapelle by See also:rail. Pop. (19o5) 14,297. It is a flourishing commercial See also:place, and besides See also:cloth and buckskin See also:mills it has See also:net and :See also:glove manufactories, soapworks, dyeworks, tanneries and breweries, and also carries on a considerable See also:trade in See also:cattle and See also:dairy produce. It has a See also:Protestant and four See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches, a Franciscan monastery, a ptogymnasium, an orphanage, a See also:hospital, and a chamber of See also:commerce. As See also:part of the duchy of See also:Limburg, Eupen was under the See also:government of See also:Austria until the See also:peace of See also:Luneville in 18o1, when it passed to See also:France. In 1814 it came into the See also:possession of See also:Prussia.

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