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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 2 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TONDERN , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany, in the Prussian See also:

province of See also:

SCHLESWIG (Dan. Slesvig)

Schleswig-See also:

Holstein, on the Widane, 8 m. from the See also:

North See also:

Sea at Hoyer, opposite the See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of See also:

SYLT (probably from the O. Fris. Silendi, i.e. sealand)

Sylt, and 42 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail N.W. from Flensburg. Pop. (1900), 4244. Tondern was in See also:

early days a seaport, but since the reclamation of the marshes and the dredging of the Widane See also:

NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation has ceased, and vessels load and unload at Hoyer, with which the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place has See also:

DIRECT

direct railway communication. The See also:

trade consists chiefly in agricultural produce and 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 there is an important See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse See also:

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

market. In the See also:

VILLAGE

village of Galhus, lying about 4 M. N., were discovered, in 1639 and 1734 respectively, two See also:

GOLDEN

golden horns of the Scandinavian See also:

period; these were stolen in 1802 from the Museum of See also:

NORTHERN

Northern Antiquities in See also:

COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen, where they had been treasured, and have never been recovered. See Karstens, See also:

Die Stodt Tondern (Tondern, 1861).

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