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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 56 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEGAU , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Saxony, situated in a fertile See also:country, on the See also:Elster, 18 m. S.W. from See also:Leipzig by the railway to See also:Zeitz. Pop. (1905), 5656. It has two Evangelical churches, that of St See also:Lawrence being a See also:fine See also:Gothic structure, a 16th-See also:century town-See also:hall; a very old See also:hospital and an agricultural school. Its See also:industries embrace the manu- from 1039 to 1227. See Fiissel, Anfang and Ende See also:des Klosters St See also:Jacob zu Pegau (Leipzig, 1857) ; and Dillner, Gressel and See also:Gunther, Altes and neues aus Pegau (Leipzig, 1905). The Annales pegavienses are published in Bd. XVI. of the Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptures.

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