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KAMMIN, or CAMMIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 646 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KAMMIN, or CAMMIN , a See also:town in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Pomerania, 22 M. from the Baltic, on the Kamminsche Bodden, a See also:lake connected with the See also:sea by the Dievenow. Pop. (19o5), 5923. Among its four Evangelical churches, the See also:cathedral and the See also:church of St See also:Mary are noteworthy. See also:Iron-See also:founding and See also:brewing are carried on in the town, which has also some fishing and See also:shipping. There is steamer communication with See also:Stettin, about 40 M. S.S.W. Kammin is of Wendish origin, and obtained municipal privileges in 1274. From about 1200 till 1628 it was the seat of a bishopric, which at the latter date became a See also:secular principality, being in 1648 incorporated with See also:Brandenburg. See Kiichen, Geschichte der Stadt Kammin (Kammin, 1885).

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