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WINTERTHUR , a flourishing See also:industrial See also:town in the Toss valley, See also:canton of See also:Zurich, See also:Switzerland, and by See also:rail 17 M. N.E. of Zurich. It is 1450 ft. above See also:sea-level, and has a rapidly increasing See also:population (in 1870, 9317; in 1880, 13,502; in 1888, 15,805; and in 1900, 22,335), all See also:German-speaking and nearly all Protestants. It is the point of junction of seven lines of railway, and is therefore of considerable commercial importance. Its See also:main See also:industries are See also:cambric-See also:weaving, See also:cotton-See also:printing, the manufacture of machinery, and See also:wine-growing, Stadtberg being the best variety of wine grown in the neighbourhood of the town. It is a See also:modern, well-built town, with a See also:fine 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 and well-arranged school buildings. It suffered severely from the disastrous See also:financial enterprise of the See also:National Railway of Switzerland which it promoted. In 1878 it had to sell its See also:property in that See also:line, and from 1881 to 1885 it was in See also:great difficulties in the See also:matter of a See also:loan of nine million francs guaranteed in 1874 by the town, together with three others in See also:Aargau, to that See also:ill-fated railway. As the three co-guarantor towns were unable to pay their See also:share, the whole See also:burden See also:fell on Winterthur, which struggled valiantly to meet its liabilities, and was helped by large loans from the cantonal and federal governments.
The See also:Roman See also:settlement of Vitudurum [See also:Celtic dui, See also:water] was a little See also:north-See also:east of the See also:present town, at the See also:place now known as Ober Winterthur. It was there that in 919 Burkhard II., See also:duke of Alamannia, defeated See also:Rudolf II., See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Transjuran See also:Burgundy. It was refounded in the valley in 118o by the See also:counts of Kyburg (their See also:castle rises on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill, 4 M. to the See also:south of the town), who granted it great liberties and privileges, making it the seat of their See also:district See also:court for the See also:Thurgau. In 1264 the town passed with the See also:rest of the Kyburg See also:inheritance to the Habsburgs, who showed very great favour to it, and thus secured its unswerving See also:loyalty. In 1292 the men of Zurich were beaten back in an See also:attempt to take the town. For a See also:short 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 after the See also:outlawry of Duke See also:Frederick of See also:Austria, it became a See also:free imperial See also:city (1415–1442); but after the See also:conquest of the Thurgau by the Swiss Confederates (1460–1461) Winterthur, which had gallantly stood a nine-See also:weeks' See also:siege, was isolated in the midst of non-See also:Austrian territory. Hence it was sold by the duke to the town of Zurich in 1467, its rights and liberties being reserved, and its See also:history since then has been that of the other lands ruled by Zurich. In 1717–1726 Zurich tried hard by means of heavy dues to crush the See also:rival See also:silk and cotton industries at Winterthur, which, how-ever, on the whole very successfully maintained its See also:ancient rights and liberties against the encroachments of Zurich.
See H. Glitsch, Beitrage z. iiltern Winterthurer Verfassungsgeschichte (Winterthur, 1906); J. C. Troll, Geschichte d. Stadt Winterlhar (8 vols., 1840–1850). (W. A. B.
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