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See also:LISSA (See also:Polish Lezno) , a See also:town in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Posen, 25 M. N.E. from See also:Glogau by See also:rail and at the junction of lines to See also:Breslau, Posen and Landsberg. Pop. (1905) 16,021. The See also:chief buildings are the handsome See also:palace, the See also:medieval town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, the four churches and the See also:synagogue. Its manufactures consistchiefly of shoes, machinery, See also:liqueurs and See also:tobacco; it also possesses a large See also:steam See also:flour-See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill, and carries on a brisk See also:trade in See also:grain and See also:cattle.
Lissa owes its rise to a number of Moravian See also:Brothers who were banished from Bohemia by the See also:emperor See also:Ferdinand I. in the 16th See also:century and found a See also:refuge in a See also:village on the See also:estate of the Polish See also:family of Leszczynski. Their See also:settlement received municipal rights in 1561. During the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War the See also:population was reinforced by other refugees, and Lissa became an important commercial town and the chief seat of the Moravian Brothers in See also:Poland. Johann See also:Amos See also:Comenius was See also:long See also:rector of the celebrated Moravian school here. In 1656 and 1707 Lissa was burned down.
See Voigt, Aus Lissas erster BlStezeit (Lissa, 1905), and Sanden, Geschichte der Lissaer Schule (Lissa, 1905).
End of Article: LISSA (Polish Lezno)
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