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GREIFENBERG

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 577 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREIFENBERG , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Pomerania, on the Rega, 45 M. N.E. of See also:Stettin on the railway to See also:Kolberg. Pop. (1905) 7208. It has two Evangelical churches (among them that of St See also:Mary, dating from 13th See also:century), two See also:ancient gateways, a See also:powder See also:tower and a gymnasium. The manufacture of See also:machines, stoves and bricks are the See also:principal See also:industries. Greifenberg possessed municipal rights as See also:early as 1262, and in the 14th and 15th centuries had a considerable See also:shipping See also:trade, but it lost much of its prosperity during the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War. See See also:Riemann, Geschichte der Stadt Greifenberg (1862).

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