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PRERAU (Czech, Prerov)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 280 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRERAU (See also:Czech, Prerov) , a See also:town of See also:Austria, in See also:Moravia, 56 m. E.N.E. of See also:Brunn by See also:rail. Pop. (1900), 16,738, chiefly Czech. It is one of the See also:oldest towns in Moravia, and possesses a See also:Gothic town-See also:hall and an old See also:castle, once occupied by See also:Matthias See also:Corvinus. It has an important See also:cloth See also:industry, and manufactures of See also:sugar, See also:ropes, machinery and agricultural implements. Prerau was at one See also:time the See also:chief seat of the Moravian Brethren.

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