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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 3 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ODERBERG , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Brandenburg, on the Alte See also:Oder, 2 M. from Bralitz, a station 44 M. N.W. from See also:Frankfort-on-Oder, by the railway to See also:Angermunde. Pop. (1905) 4,015. It has a See also:fine See also:Gothic See also:church, dedicated to St See also:Nicholas, and the ruins of an See also:ancient See also:castle, called Barenkasten. Oderherg is an important See also:emporium for the See also:Russian See also:timber See also:trade. ODESCALCHI-ERBA, the name of a See also:Roman princely See also:family of See also:great antiquity. They are supposed to be descended from Enrico Erba, imperial See also:vicar in See also:Milan in 1165. Alessandro Erba married Lucrezia Odescalchi, See also:sister of See also:Pope See also:Innocent IX., in 1709, who is believed to have been descended from Giorgio Odescalchi (/loruil at See also:Como in 1290). The See also:title of See also:prince of the See also:Holy Roman See also:Empire was conferred on Alessandro in 1714, and that of See also:duke of Syrmium in See also:Hungary in 1714, with the qualification of " serene See also:highness." The See also:head of the family now bears the titles of See also:Furst Odescalchi, duke of Syrmium, prince of See also:Bassano, &c., and he is an hereditary See also:magnate of Hungary and a See also:grandee of See also:Spain; the family, which is one of the most important in See also:Italy, owns the Palazzo Odescalchi in See also:Rome, the magnificent castle of See also:Bracciano, besides large estates in Italy and Hungary. See A. von Reument, Geschichte der Stadt Rom (See also:Berlin, 1868), and the Almanach de See also:Gotha.

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