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RATIBOR (Polish Raciborz)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 916 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RATIBOR (See also:Polish Raciborz) , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Silesia, pleasantly situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Oder at the point where the See also:river becomes navigable, 13 M. from the See also:Austrian frontier and 97 M. by See also:rail S.E. of See also:Breslau, on the See also:main See also:line to Odcrberg. Pop. (1905) 32,690. The most prominent buildings are the handsome See also:law-courts by See also:Schinkel and the imposing See also:chateau of the See also:dukes of Ratibor, which occupies a commanding position on the right bank of the Oder. The town is the seat of various See also:industries, the See also:chief products of which are machinery, railway See also:gear, irbn wares, See also:tobacco, cigars, See also:paper, See also:sugar, See also:furniture and See also:glass. See also:Trade is carried on in these and in See also:coal, See also:wood and agricultural produce, while See also:hemp and vegetables are largely grown in the environs. Ratibor, which received municipal privileges in 1217, was formerly the See also:capital of an See also:independent duchy, 38o sq. m. in extent, which existed from 1288 to 1532, and afterwards passed successively into the hands of See also:Austria and See also:Prussia. In 1821 a small mediate principality was formed out of the old lordship of Ratibor and certain ecclesiastical domains, and was conferred upon See also:Victor Amadeus, See also:landgrave of See also:Hesse-Rotenburg, as See also:compensation for some See also:Hessian territory absorbed by Prussia. The See also:title of See also:duke of Ratibor was revived in 184o for his See also:heir, See also:Prince Victor of See also:Hohenlohe-Schillingsfiirst (1818-1893). See A. Weitzel, Geschichte der Stadt and Herrschaft Ratibor (2nd ed., Ratibor, 1881).

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