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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 1017 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VERDEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hanover, on the navigable Aller, 3 M. above its confluence with the See also:Weser, 22 M. S.E. of See also:Bremen by the railway to Hanover. Pop. (Igoo) 9842. The most noticeable edifices are the beautiful See also:Gothic See also:cathedral, the churches of St See also:Andrew and St See also:John, a new See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church (1894), and the celebrated cathedral school. Its See also:industries embrace the manufacture of agricultural machinery, See also:cigar-making, See also:brewing and distilling. Verden was the see of a bishopric founded in the first See also:quarter of the 9th See also:century, or earlier, and secularized in 1648. The duchy of Verden was then ceded to See also:Sweden, passed in 1719 to Hanover and in 1810 to the See also:kingdom of See also:Westphalia. It was restored to Hanover in 1814, and was, with Hanover, annexed by See also:Prussia in 1866. See Ostenberg, Aus Verden's Vergangenheil (See also:Stade, 1876).

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