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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SUHL , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany, in the See also:

province of Prussian See also:

Saxony, picturesquely situated on the Lauter, on the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern slope of the Thuringian See also:

FOREST

Forest, 61 m. N.E. of See also:

MEININGEN

Meiningen and 29 M. S.W. of See also:

ERFURT

Erfurt by See also:

RAIL

rail. Pop. (1905), 13,814. The armourers of Suhl are mentioned as See also:

early as the 9th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, but they enjoyed their highest See also:

VOGUE, EUGENE MELCHIOR, COMTE DE (1848- )

vogue from 1550 to 1634. The knights of See also:

south Germany especially prized the swords and See also:

ARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH (1832-1901)

armour of this town, and many of the weapons used in See also:

CAMPAIGNS

campaigns against the See also:

TURKS

Turks and in the Seven Years' See also:

War are said to have been manufactured at Suhl. It has suffered considerably in See also:

MODERN

modern times from the competition of other towns in this See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, especially since the introduction of the See also:

BREECH (common in early forms to Teutonic languages)

breech-loading See also:

RIFLE

rifle. It still contains, however, large factories for firearms military and sporting, and See also:

side arms, besides ironworks, See also:

machine-See also:

WORKS

works, See also:

POTTERIES, THE

potteries and tanneries. The once considerable manufacture of See also:

FUSTIAN

fustian has declined. A brine See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring (Soolquelle) at the See also:

FOOT

foot of the neighbouring Domberg is said to have given name to the town. Suhl, which obtained civic rights in 1527, belonged to the principality of Henneberg, and formed See also:

PART

part of the possessions of the See also:

KINGDOM

kingdom of Saxony assigned to See also:

Prussia by the See also:

CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress of See also:

Vienna in 1815.

See Werther, Chronik der Stadt Suhl_(2 vols., Suhl, 1846-1847).

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