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PAPENBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 725 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAPENBURG , a See also:

town in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hanover, 27 M. by See also:rail S. by W. of See also:Emden, and near the right See also:bank of the See also:Ems, with which it is connected by a See also:canal 3 M. See also:long. Pop. (1905), 7673. It lies in the centre of extensive See also:moors and in See also:appearance resembles a Dutch town. The See also:industries include See also:shipbuilding, oil and See also:glass See also:mills, and manufactures of chemicals, See also:cement, See also:nickel goods and machinery. It is a very prosperous See also:port and its See also:trade, carried on mainly by See also:water, is mostly in the agricultural produce of the extensive moors and pasture lands which See also:lie around it. Papenburg was founded in 1675 and became a town in 1860.

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