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GROSSENHAIN , a See also:town in the See also:kingdom of See also:Saxony, 20 M. N. from See also:Dresden, on the See also:main See also:line of railway (via Elsterwerda) to See also:Berlin and at the junction of lines to Priestewitz and Frankforton-See also:Oder. Pop. (1905) 12,015. It has an Evangelical 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, a See also:modern and a commercial school, a library and an extensive public See also:park. The See also:industries are very important, and embrace manufactures of woollen and See also:cotton stuffs, buckskin, See also:leather, See also:glass and machinery. Grossenhain was originally a Sorb See also:settlement. It was for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time occupied by the Bohemians, by whom it was strongly fortified. It afterwards came into the See also:possession of the margraves of See also:Meissen, from whom it was taken in 1312 by the margraves of See also:Brandenburg. It suffered considerably in all the See also:great See also:German See also:wars, and in 1744 was nearly destroyed by See also:fire. On the 16th of May 1813, a See also:battle took See also:place here between the See also:French and the Russians.
See G. W. Schuberth, Chronik der Stadi Grossenhain (Grossenhain, 1887—1892).
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