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GLOGAU , a fortified See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Silesia, 59 M. N.W. from See also:Breslau, on the railway to Frankforton-See also:Oder. Pop. (1905) 23,461. It is built partly on an See also:island and partly on the See also:left See also:bank of the Oder; and owing to the fortified See also:enceinte having been pushed farther afield, new quarters have been opened up. Among its most important buildings are the See also:cathedral, in the See also:Gothic, and a See also:castle (now used as a courthouse), in the See also:Renaissance See also:style, two other See also:Roman See also:Catholic and three See also:Protestant churches, a new town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, a See also:synagogue, a military See also:hospital, two classical See also:schools (Gymnasien) and several See also:libraries. Owing to its situation on a navigable See also:river and at the junction of several lines of railway, Glogau carries on an extensive See also:trade, which is fostered by a variety of See also:local See also:industries, embracing machinery-See also:building, See also:tobacco, See also:beer, oil, See also:sugar and See also:vinegar. It has also extensive lithographic See also:works, and its See also:wool See also:market is celebrated.
In the beginning of the 1th See also:century Glogau, even then a populous and fortified town, was able to withstand a See also:regular See also:siege by the See also:emperor See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry V.; but in 1157 the See also:duke of Silesia, finding he could not hold out against See also:Frederick See also:Barbarossa, set it on See also:fire. In 1252 the town, which had been raised from its ashes by Henry I., the Bearded, became the See also:capital of a principality of Glogau, and in 1482 town and See also:district were See also:united to the Bohemian See also:crown. In the course of the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War Glogau suffered greatly. The inhabitants, who had become Protestants soon after the See also:Reformation, were dragooned into conformity by See also:Wallenstein's soldiery; and the See also:Jesuits received permission to build themselves a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church and a See also:college. Captured by the Protestants in 1632, and recovered by the Imperialists in 1633, the town was again captured by the Swedes in 1642, and continued in Protestant hands till the See also:peace of See also:Westphalia in 1648, when the emperor recovered it. In 1741 the Prussians took the See also:place by See also:storm, and during the Seven Years' War it formed an important centre of operations for the Prussian forces. After the See also:battle of See also:Jena (18o6) it See also:fell into the hands of the See also:French; and was gallantly held by Laplane, against the See also:Russian and Prussian besiegers, after the battle of Katzbach in See also:August 1813 until the 17th of the following See also:April.
See Minsberg, Geschichte der Stadt and Festung Glogau's (2 vols., Glogau, 1853) ; and H. von Below, Zur Geschichte See also:des Jahres z8o6. Glogau's Belagerung and Verteidigung (See also:Berlin, 1893).
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