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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 388 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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RIXDORF , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany, lying immediately See also:

south of See also:

Berlin, of which it practically forms a suburb, though retaining its own civic See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration. Pop. (188o) 18,729; (1895) 59,495; (1905) 153,650. It is connected with the See also:

METROPOLIS (Gr. piir17Pi mother, srGXis, city)

metropolis by a railway (See also:

RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

Ring-bahn) and by an electric See also:

TRAMWAY

tramway. It contains no public buildings of any See also:

INTEREST

interest, and is almost entirely occupied by a large See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial and See also:

ARTISAN, or ARTIZAN

artisan See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population, engaged in the manufacture of linoleum, See also:

FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture, See also:

CLOTH

cloth, pianos, See also:

BEER

beer, See also:

SOAP

soap, &c. Rixdorf is chiefly interesting as a See also:

FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of Moravian Brethren from Bohemia, who settled here in 1737 under the See also:

PROTECTION

protection of See also:

King See also:

Frederick See also:

William I. See also:

German Rixdorf, which is now See also:

UNITED

united with Bohemian Rixdorf, was a much more See also:

ancient See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, and appears as Richardsdorf in 1630 and as Riegenstorp in 1435. Before 1435 it belonged to the See also:

order of the Knights of St See also:

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