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KOSLIN, or COSLIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 916 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KOSLIN, or COSLIN , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Pomerania, at the See also:foot of the Gollenberg (45o ft.), 5 M. from the Baltic, and 105 M. N.E. of See also:Stettin by See also:rail. Pop. (1905), 21,474. The town has two Evangelical and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church, a gymnasium, a See also:cadet See also:academy and a See also:deaf and dumb See also:asylum. In the large See also:market See also:place is the statue of the Prussian See also:king See also:Frederick See also:William I., erected in 1824, and there is a See also:war memorial on the See also:Friedrich Wilhelm Platz. The See also:industries include the manufacture of See also:soap, See also:tobacco, machinery, See also:paper, bricks and tiles, See also:beer and other goods. Koslin was built about 1188 by the See also:Saxons, and raised to the See also:rank of a town in 1266. In 1532 it accepted the doctrines of the See also:Reformation. It was severely tried in the See also:Thirty Years' War and in the Seven Years' War, and in 1720 it was burned down. On the Gollenberg stands a See also:monument to the memory of the Pomeranians who See also:fell in the war of 1813-15.

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