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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 58 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEINE , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hanover, 16 m. by See also:rail N.W. of See also:Brunswick, on the railway to Hanover and See also:Hamburg. Pop. (1905), 15,421. The town has a See also:Roman See also:Catholic and a See also:Protestant See also:church and several See also:schools. Its See also:industries include See also:iron and See also:steel See also:works, breweries, distilleries and brickyards, and the manufacture of See also:starch, See also:sugar, See also:malt, machinery and artificial manure. There are also large See also:horse and See also:cattle markets held here. Peine was at one See also:time a strongly fortified See also:place, and until 1803 belonged to the bishopric of See also:Hildesheim.

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