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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 844 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KLADNO , a See also:

mining See also:town of Bohemia, See also:Austria, 18 m. W.N.W. of See also:Prague by See also:rail. Pop. (1900), 18,600, mostly See also:Czech. It is situated in a region very See also:rich in See also:iron-mines and See also:coal-See also:fields and possesses some of the largest iron and See also:steel See also:works in Bohemia. Near it is the mining town of Buschtehrad (pop. 3510), situated in the centre of very extensive coal-fields. Buschtehrad was originally the name of the See also:castle only. This was from the 15th See also:century to 163o the See also:property of the lords of Kolovrat, and came by devious See also:inheritance through the See also:grand-See also:dukes of See also:Tuscany, to the See also:emperor See also:Francis See also:Joseph. The name Buschtehrad was first given to the railway, and then to the town, which had been called Buckow since its See also:foundation in 1700. There is another castle of Buschtehrad near Hoi-ic. Kladno, which for centuries had been a See also:village of no importance, was sold in 1705 by the grand-duchess See also:Anna Maria of Tuscany to the See also:cloister in Biewnow, to which it still belongs.

The mining See also:

industry began in 1842.

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