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HOF , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Bavarian See also:province of Upper
See also:Franconia, beautifully situated on the See also:Saale, on the See also:north-
eastern spurs of the See also:Fichtelgebirge, 103 m. S.W. of See also:Leipzig
on the See also:main See also:line of railway to See also:Regensburg and See also:Munich. Pop. (1885) 22,257; (1905) 36,348. It has one See also:Roman See also:Catholic and three See also:Protestant churches (among the latter that of St See also:Michael, which was restored in 1884), a 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 of 1563, a gymnasium with an extensive library, a commercial school and a See also:hospital founded in 1262. It is the seat of various flourishing See also:industries, notably woollen, See also:cotton and jute See also:spinning, jute See also:weaving, and the manufacture of cotton and See also:half-woollen fabrics. It has also dye-See also:works, See also:flour-See also:mills, saw-mills, breweries, See also:iron-works, and manufactures of machinery, iron and See also:tin wares, chemicals and See also:sugar. In the neighbourhood there are large
See also:marble quarries and extensive iron mines. Hof, originally called Regnitzhof, was built about Io80. It was held for some 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 by the See also:dukes of See also:Meran, and was sold in 1373 to the See also:bur-See also:graves of See also:Nuremberg. The See also:cloth manufacture introduced into it in the 15th See also:century, and the manufacture of veils begun in the 16th century, greatly promoted its prosperity, but it suffered severely in the Albertine and Hussite See also:wars as well as in the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War. In 1792 it came into the See also:possession of See also:Prussia; in 18o6 it See also:fell to See also:France; and in 1810 it was incorporated with See also:Bavaria. In 1823 the greater See also:part of the town was destroyed by See also:fire.
See See also:Ernst, Geschichte and Beschreibung See also:des Bezirks and der Stadt Hof (1866) ; Tillmann, See also:Die Stadt Hof and ihre Umgebung (Hof, 1899), and C. See also:Meyer, Quellen zur Geschichte der Stadt Hof (1894-1896).
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