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NIENBURG ON THE See also:WESER , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hanover, situated on the Weser, 33 M. N.W. from Hanover by the railway to See also:Bremen. Pop. (1905) 9638. It has an Evangelical and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, a classical school and an agricultural See also:college. Its See also:industries consist chiefly in See also:glass-blowing, distilling, See also:biscuit-making and the manufacture of See also:manures. The town is mentioned as See also:early as 1025. It was fortified in the 12th See also:century, obtained municipal rights in 1569, and passed in 1582 to the See also:house of See also:Luneburg. It was occupied by the imperialists from 1627 to 1634, and by the See also:French during the Seven Years' See also:War. The walls were dismantled by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of See also:Napoleon I. in 1807.
See See also:Gade, Geschichte der Stadt Nienburg an der Weser (1862).
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