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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 642 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KALISZ , the See also:

chief See also:town of the above See also:government, situated in 51° 46' N. and 18° E., 147 M. by See also:rail W.S.W. of See also:Warsaw, on the See also:banks of the Prosna, which there forms the boundary of See also:Prussia. Pop. (1871), 18,o88; (1897), 21,68o, of whom 37% were See also:Jews. It is one of the See also:oldest and finest cities of See also:Poland, is the seat of a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:bishop, and possesses a See also:castle, a teachers' See also:institute and a large public See also:park. The See also:industrial establishments comprise a brewery, and factories for See also:ribbons, See also:cloth and See also:sugar, and tanneries. Kalisz is identified with the Calisia of See also:Ptolemy, and its antiquity is indicated by the abundance of coins and other See also:objects of See also:ancient See also:art which have been discovered on the site, as well as by the numerous See also:burial mounds existing in the vicinity. It was the See also:scene of the decisive victory of See also:Augustus the Strong of Poland over the Swedes on the 29th of See also:October 1706, of several See also:minor conflicts in 1813, and of the friendly See also:meeting of the See also:Russian and Prussian troops in 1835, in memory of which an See also:iron See also:obelisk was erected in the town by See also:Nicholas I. in 1841. The treaty of 1813 between See also:Russia and Prussia was signed here.

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