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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 693 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PYRITZ , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany, in the Prussian See also:

province of See also:

POMERANIA (German, Pommern)

Pomerania, 16 m. S.W. of See also:

STARGARD

Stargard by the railway to Ciistrin. Pop. (1905), 8600. It is still surrounded by walls with towers, and has two Evangelical churches. There are small manufactures of machinery, bricks and See also:

SUGAR

sugar. Excellent See also:

wheat is grown in the vicinity, while another See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry is the breeding of See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle. Near the town is a See also:

FOUNTAIN (Late Lat. fontana, from ions, a spring)

fountain, erected to See also:

mark the See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring in which See also:

OTTO

Otto, See also:

bishop of See also:

BAMBERG

Bamberg, baptized the first Pomeranian converts to See also:

CHRISTIANITY

Christianity in 1124. Pyritz became a town in 1150.

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