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SAGAN , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Silesia, situated on the See also:Bober, a tributary of the See also:Oder, 6o m. S.S.E. of See also:Frankfort-on-Oder and 102 M. S.E. of See also:Berlin by the See also:direct See also:main See also:line of railway to See also:Breslau. Pop. (1905) 14,208. It is still partly surrounded by its old fortifications and has numerous See also:medieval houses. It contains the handsome See also:palace of the See also:dukes of Sagan. Among other buildings are an Evangelical See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church with a conspicuous See also:steeple and containing the See also:burial vaults of the ducal See also:family, and See also:Augustine and a Jesuit
monasterial church, a medieval 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 with old cloisters attached, a See also:Roman See also:Catholic gymnasium and a large See also:hospital, named after its founder, the duchess Dorothea (1793–1862), wife of See also:Edmund, See also:duke of Talleyrand-See also:Perigord-Dino. The leading See also:industry of the town is See also:cloth-See also:weaving, with See also:wool and See also:flax See also:spinning; there is also some See also:trade in wool and See also:grain.
The mediate principality of Sagan, now forming a portion of the Prussian governmental See also:district of See also:Liegnitz, and formed in 1397 out of a portion of the duchy of See also:Glogau, has several times changed hands by See also:purchase as well as by See also:inheritance. One of its most famous possessors was See also:Wallenstein, who held it for seven years before his See also:death in 1634. Bought by See also:Prince Lobkowitz in 1646, the principality remained in his family until 1787, when it was sold to See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter, duke of See also:Courland, whose descendant, Prince Bozon (b. 1832), son of See also:Napoleon See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis (1811–1898), duke of Talleyrand-Perigord, owned it in 1910. The principality has an See also:area of nearly 5oo sq. m. and a See also:population of 65,000.
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