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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 33 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OHLAU , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Silesia, 16 m. by See also:rail S.E. of See also:Breslau, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Oder. Pop. (1905) 9233. It has two See also:Roman See also:Catholic and two Evangelical churches, and a See also:castle. Ohlau is the centre of a See also:tobacco-growing See also:district and has manufactures of tobacco and cigars, machinery, See also:beer, shoes and bricks. It became a town in 1291 and passed to See also:Prussia in 1742. In the 17th and 18th centuries it was often the See also:residence of the See also:dukes of See also:Brieg and of the Sobieski See also:family. See Schulz, A us Ohlaus Vergangenheit (Ohlau, 1902).

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