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FRAUSTADT (Polish, Wszowa)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 43 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FRAUSTADT (Polish, Wszowa)

FRAUSTADT (See also:
POLISH
Polish, Wszowa) , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany, in the Prussian See also:

province of See also:

Posen, in a See also:

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat sandy See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country. dotted with windmills, 50 M. S.S.W. of Posen, on the railway See also:

Lissa-See also:

SAGAN

Sagan. Pop. (including a See also:

garrison) 7500. It has three Evangelical and two See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic churches, a classical school and a teachers' See also:

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary; the manufactures include woollen and See also:

cotton goods, hats, See also:

MOROCCO

morocco See also:

leather and gloves, and there is a considerable See also:

trade in See also:

corn, See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle and See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool. Fraustadt was founded by Silesians in 1348, and afterwards belonged to the principality of See also:

GLOGAU

Glogau. Near the town the Swedes under See also:

Charles XII. defeated the See also:

SAXONS

Saxons on the 13th of See also:

FEBRUARY

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Polish name is Wschowa, not Wszowa.

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