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Bible Encyclopedias
Altena
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Westphalia, on the river Lenne, 38 m. S.S.E. from Dortmund. Pop. (1900) 12,769. It consists of a single street, winding up a deep valley for about 3 m. There are three churches, a museum, high grade and popular schools. Its hardware industries are important, and embrace iron rolling, the manufacture of fine wire, needles, springs and silver ornaments. On the neighbouring Schlossberg is the ancestral castle of the counts of La Marck, ancestors, on the female side, of the Prussian royal house.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Altena'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/altena.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Altena'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/altena.html. 1910.
