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GARDELEGEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 459 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GARDELEGEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in Prussian See also:Saxony, on the right See also:bank of the Milde, 20 M. W. from See also:Stendal, on the See also:main See also:line of railway See also:Berlin-See also:Hanover. Pop. (1905) 8193. It has a See also:Roman See also:Catholic and three Evangelical churches, a See also:hospital, founded in 1285, and a high-grade school. There are considerable manufactures, notably agricultural machinery and buttons, and its See also:beer has a See also:great repute. Gardelegen was founded in the loth, See also:century, and was for a See also:long See also:time the seat of a line of See also:counts. It suffered considerably in the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, and in 1775 was burned by the See also:French. On the neighbouring See also:heath See also:Margrave See also:Louis I. of See also:Brandenburg gained, in 1343, a victory over See also:Otto the Mild of See also:Brunswick.

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