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QUERFURT

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 743 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUERFURT , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:province of Prussian See also:Saxony, situated in a fertile See also:country on the Querne, 18 m. W. from See also:Merseburg, on a See also:branch See also:line from Oberroblingen. Pop. (1905) 884, Its See also:chief See also:industries are See also:sugar-refining, See also:lime-burning and See also:brewing. Querfurt was for some See also:time the See also:capital of a principality which had an See also:area of nearly 200 sq. m. and a See also:population of about 20,000. The ruling See also:family having become See also:extinct in 1496, it passed to that of See also:Mansfeld. In 1635, by the See also:peace of See also:Prague, it was ceded to the elector of Saxony, See also:John See also:George I., who handed it over to his son See also:Augustus of See also:Saxe-See also:Weissenfels; but in 1746 it was again See also:united with electoral Saxony. It was incorporated with See also:Prussia in 1815. See See also:Schneider, Querfurter Stadt- and Kreischronik(Querfurt,1902).

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