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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 334 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SCHLEIZ , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany, second See also:

capital of the principality of See also:

Reuss, Younger See also:

LINE

Line, situated in a fertile See also:

DISTRICT

district on the See also:

RIVER

river Wiesenthal, 20 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail N.W. of See also:

PLAUEN

Plauen. Pop. (1905) 5577• It has a See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace, with a See also:

CHAPEL

chapel and a library, three churches, one of them containing the See also:

BURIAL

burial vaults of the princes, several educational establishments, and various small See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries such as the manufacture of See also:

HOSIERY

hosiery, toys, sweetmeats and lamps. It has a See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market for See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle and pigs. Schleiz was originally a Slav See also:

settlement, but received civic privileges in 1359. There was a settlement of the See also:

Teutonic See also:

Order here, and for some years previous to 1848 the town was the capital of the small principality of Reuss-Schleiz. In the vicinity a See also:

BATTLE

battle was fought, on the 9th of See also:

OCTOBER

October ,8o6, between the See also:

French and the Prussians. See See also:

Alberti, Aus vergangenen Tagen See also:

DES

des Reussenlandes and der Stadt Schleiz (Schleiz, 1896).

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