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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 916 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KOSEN , a See also:

village and summer resort of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Saxony, 33 M. by See also:rail S. by W. of See also:Halle, on the See also:Saale. Pop. (1905), 2990. The See also:town has a See also:mineral See also:spring, which is used for bathing, being efficacious for See also:rheumatism and other complaints. Kosen, which became a town in 1869, has large See also:mill-See also:works; it has a See also:trade in See also:wood and See also:wine. On the adjacent Rudelsburg, where there is a ruined See also:castle, the See also:German students have erected a See also:monument to their comrades who See also:fell in the Franco-German See also:War of 187o-71. Hereon are also memorials to See also:Bismarck and to the See also:emperor See also:William I. The town is famous as the central See also:meeting-See also:place of the German students' See also:corps, which hold an See also:annual See also:congress here every Whitsuntide. See Techow, Fiihrer durch Kosen and Umgegend (Kosen, 1889) ; and Rosenberg, Kosen (See also:Naumburg, 1877).

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