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TILSIT , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:East See also:Prussia, situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Memel or Niemen, here crossed by an See also:iron railway See also:bridge, 57 M. S.E. of Memel and 72 N.E. of See also:Konigsberg by See also:rail. Pop. (1905), 37,148. The town has a number of handsome See also:modern buildings, including a 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, a See also:post See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, See also:law courts, and a large See also:hospital. It contains four See also:Protestant churches, among them the See also:German 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 handsome See also:steeple, and the curious circular Lithuanian church, a See also:Roman See also:Catholic church, a Jewish See also:synagogue and a classical school (Gymnasium). The manufactures include machinery, chemicals, See also:soap, See also:leather, shoes, See also:glass and other articles, and there are iron-foundries, breweries, and, See also:steam See also:flour and saw-See also:mills. Tilsit carries on See also:trade in See also:timber, See also:grain, See also:hemp, See also:flax, See also:herrings and See also:coal; but its trade with See also:Russia, at one 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 considerable, has fallen off since the construction of the railway from Konigsberg to See also:Kovno. The See also:river is navigable
above the town, and there is a steamboat communication with Konigsberg, Memel and Kovno.
Tilsit, which received civic rights in 1552, See also:grew up around a See also:castle of the See also:Teutonic See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, known as the " Schalauner Haus," founded in 1288. It owes most of its See also:interest to the See also:peace signed here in See also:July 1807, the preliminaries of which were settled by the emperors See also:Alexander and See also:Napoleon on a raft moored in the Memel. This treaty, which constituted the See also:kingdom of See also:Westphalia and the duchy of See also:Warsaw, registers the See also:nadir of Prussia's humiliation under Napoleon. The poet Max von Schenkendorf (1784–1817) was See also:born at Tilsit.
See Aus Tilsits Vergangenheit (5 vols., Tilsit, 1888–1892) ; and R. Thimm, Beitrage zur Geschichte von Tilsit (Tilsit, 1893).
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