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Beuthen, Germany
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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Or Oberbeuthen, a town of Germany, in the extreme south-east of Prussian Silesia, on the railway between Breslau and Cracow, 121 m. S.E. of the former. Pop. (1905) 60,078. It is the centre of the mining district of Upper Silesia, and its population is mainly engaged in such operations and in iron and zinc smelting. Beuthen is an old town, and was formerly the capital of the Bohemian duchy of Beuthen, which in 1620 was ultimately granted, as a free lordship of the Empire, to Lazarus, Baron Henckel von Donnersmarck, by the emperor Ferdinand II., and parts of which, now mediatized, are held by two branches of the counts Henckel von Donnersmarck.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Beuthen, Germany'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/beuthen-germany.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Beuthen, Germany'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/beuthen-germany.html. 1910.
