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SANKT POLTEN , an old See also:town and episcopal see of See also:Austria, in See also:Lower Austria, 38 m. W. of See also:Vienna by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 14,510. It is situated on the Traisen, a tributary of the See also:Danube, and contains an interesting old See also:abbey 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, founded in 1030 and restored in 1266 and again at the beginning of the i8th See also:century. There are several religious educational institutions in the town, and a military See also:academy for See also:engineers. The See also:industries include See also:cotton See also:spinning and milling, as well as the manufacture of See also:iron and hardware, and small arms. Sankt Polten was an inhabited See also:place in the See also:Roman See also:period. An abbey dedicated to St See also:Hippolytus was founded here in the 9th century, around which the town See also:developed. It was called Fanum Sancti See also:Hip polyti, from which, by corruption, the actual name is derived. It was surrounded with walls and fortifications in the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Rudolf of See also:Habsburg, but these were demolished in See also:modern times.
See Lampel, Urkundenbuch See also:des Chorherrenstifts Sankt Polten (Wien, 1891-1901, 2 vols.).
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