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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 16 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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OFFENBURG , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany, in the See also:

GRAND

grand-duchy of See also:

Baden, 27 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail S.W. of Baden, on the See also:

RIVER

river Kinzig. Pop. (1905) 15,434. It contains a statue of See also:

SIR

Sir See also:

Francis See also:

Drake, a See also:

mark of See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour due to the fact that Drake is sometimes regarded as having introduced the See also:

potato into See also:

EUROPE

Europe. The See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries of the town are the making of See also:

cotton, See also:

LINEN

linen, hats, See also:

MALT (O. Eng., mealt; O. Sax., malt; O. Tent., maltos; Mod. Ger., Malz; Scand., malt; probably derived from the Sanskrit mrdu, soft, thus having reference to the fact that malt is raw grain rendered soft or tender)

malt, machinery, See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco and cigars and See also:

glass. Offenburg is first mentioned about I See also:

LOO (formerly called " Lanterloo," Fr. lanturlu, the refrain of a popular 17th-century song)

loo. In 1223 it became a town; in 1248 it passed to the See also:

bishop of See also:

STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg; and in 1289 it became an imperial See also:

FREE

free See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city. Soon, however, this position was lost, but it was regained about the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and Offenburg remained a free city until 1802, when it became See also:

PART

part of Baden. In 1632 it was taken by the Swedes, and in 1689 it was destroyed by the See also:

French. See See also:

Walter, Kurzer Abriss der Geschichte der Reichsstadt Offenburg (Offenburg, 1896).

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