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SIEGEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Westphalia, situated 63 m. E. of See also:Cologne by See also:rail, on the Sieg, a tributary entering the See also:Rhine opposite See also:Bonn. Pop. (19os) 25,201. The town contains two palaces of the former princes of See also:Nassau-Siegen, a technical and a See also:mining school. The surrounding See also:district, to which it gives its name, abounds in See also:iron-mines, and iron See also:founding and smelting are the most important branches of See also:industry in and near the town. Large tanneries and See also:leather See also:works, and factories for See also:cloth, See also:paper and machinery, are among the other See also:industrial establishments. Siegen was the See also:capital of an See also:early principality belonging to the See also:house of Nassau; and from 16o6 onwards it gave name to the junior See also:branch of Nassau-Siegen. See also:Napoleon incorporated Siegen in the See also:grand-duchy of See also:Berg in 1806; and in 1815 the See also:congress of See also:Vienna assigned it to See also:Prussia, under whose See also:rule it has nearly quintupled its See also:population. See also:Rubens is said to have been See also:born here in 1J77. See Cuno, Geschichte der Stadt Siegen (Dillenburg, 1873).

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