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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 360 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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JEVER , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany, in the See also:

GRAND

grand-duchy of See also:

OLDENBURG

Oldenburg, 13 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail N.W. of Wilhelmshaven, and connected with the See also:

North See also:

Sea by a navigable See also:

canal. Pop. (1901), 5486. The See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries are See also:

WEAVING

weaving, See also:

SPINNING (from O. Eng. spinnen, to spin, cf. Ger. spinnen, &c., the Teut. root is seen, to draw out, cf. span, spider)

spinning, See also:

DYEING (0. Eng. dedgian, dealt ; Mid. Eng. deyen)

dyeing, See also:

BREWING

brewing and milling; there is also a See also:

trade in horses and 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. The fathers (See also:

Die Getreuen) of the town used to send an See also:

ANNUAL

annual birthday See also:

PRESENT

present of Ioi plovers' eggs to See also:

Bismarck, with a See also:

DEDICATION (Lat. dedicatio, from dedicare, to proclaim, to announce)

dedication in See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse. The See also:

castle of Jever was built by See also:

Prince Edo Wiemken (d. 1410), the ruler of Jeverland, a populous See also:

DISTRICT

district which in 1575 came under the See also:

RULE

rule of the See also:

dukes of Oldenburg. In 1603 it passed to the See also:

house of See also:

ANHALT

Anhalt and was later the See also:

PROPERTY

property of the empress See also:

Catherine II. of See also:

Russia, a member of this See also:

FAMILY

family. In 1814 it came again into the See also:

possession of Oldenburg. See D. Hohnholz, Aus fevers Vorgangenheit (Dever, 1886) ; Hagena, Jeverland bis zum Jahr 1500 (Oldenburg, 1902) ; and F. W.

See also:

RIEMANN, GEORG FRIEDRICH BERNHARD (1826–1866)

Riemann, Geschichte See also:

DES

des Jeverlandes (Dever, 1896).

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