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JULICH (Fr. fullers)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 549 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JULICH (Fr. fullers) , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:province, on the right See also:bank of the Roer, 16 m. N. E. of See also:Aix-la-Chapelle. Pop. (1900), 5459• It contains an Evangelical and two See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches, a gymnasium, a school for non-commissioned See also:officers, which occupies the former ducal See also:palace, and a museum of See also:local antiquities. Its manufactures include See also:sugar, See also:leather and See also:paper. Julich (formerly also Gulch, Guliche) the See also:capital of the former duchy of that name, is the Juliacum of the Antonini See also:Itinerarium; some have attributed its origin to See also:Julius See also:Caesar. It became a fortress in the 17th See also:century, and was captured by the See also:archduke See also:Leopold in 1609, by the Dutch under See also:Maurice of See also:Orange in 161o, and by the Spaniards in 1622. In 1794 it was taken by the See also:French, who held it until the See also:peace of See also:Paris in 1814. Till 186o, when its See also:works were demolished, Julich ranked as a fortress of the second class.

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