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RAVENSBURG , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Wurttemberg, pleasantly situated amid See also:vine-clad hills on the See also:river Schussen, 12 M. N. of See also:Friedrichshafen on the See also:lake of See also:Constance, by the railway of See also:Ulm. Pop. (1905) 14,614, the See also:great See also:majority of whom are See also:Roman Catholics. Its aspect is See also:medieval; it still retains its walls and nine picturesque towers, the most prominent of which, dating from the 15th See also:century, is known as the " Mehlsack," or See also:sack of See also:flour. The town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall is a handsome 15th-century See also:building. The manufactures include See also:linen, See also:cotton, embroidered muslins, pottery, See also:glass and playing-See also:cards. The See also:fruit See also:market is important, and there is See also:trade in See also:cattle, See also:grain and See also:timber. Ravensburg was founded in the 11th century by the Guelphs, and in their ancestral See also:castle on the Veitsburg, which was partially restored in 1892, the Saxon See also:duke, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry the See also:Lion, was See also:born. In 118o the town passed to the Hohenstaufens, and a century later it became a See also:free town of the See also:Empire. In the 15th century it was a flourishing commercial See also:place, its See also:chief See also:industry being the manufacture of See also:paper. Annexed to See also:Bavaria from 1803 to 181o, it was ceded to Wurttemberg in the latter See also:year.
See Hafner, Geschichte von Ravensburg (Ravensburg, 1887).
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