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LIESTAL

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 599 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LIESTAL , the See also:

capital (since 1833) of the See also:half See also:canton of See also:Basel-Stadt in See also:Switzerland. It is a well-built but uninteresting See also:industrial See also:town, situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the Ergolz stream, and is the most populous town in the entire canton of Basel, after Basel itself. By See also:rail it is qi--, m. S.E. of Basel, and 15; M. N.W. of Often. In the 15th-See also:century town See also:hall (See also:Rat/taus) is preserved the See also:golden drinking See also:cup of See also:Charles the Bold, See also:duke of See also:Burgundy, which was taken at the See also:battle of See also:Nancy in 1477. In 'coo the See also:population was 54o3, all See also:German-speaking and mainly Protestants. The town was sold in 1302 by its See also:lord to the See also:bishop of Basel who, in 1400, sold it to the See also:city of Basel, at whose hands it suffered much in the Peasants' See also:War of 1653, and so consented gladly to the separation of 1833.

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