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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Bischofswerda
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, on the Wesenitz, and at the junction of the DresdenGorlitz and Bischofswerda-Zittau railways in the governmental district of Bautzen. Pop. (1905) 7465. There are cloth, artificial flower, and cigar factories, glass-works, potteries, and in the neighbourhood large granite quarries. It is famous as the scene of a battle, on the 12th of May 1813, between the French and the Allies after Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. It was the residence of Benno, bishop of Meissen, in the 1 i th century, and the "Bishop's Road" still runs from here to Meissen.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Bischofswerda'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/bischofswerda.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Bischofswerda'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/bischofswerda.html. 1910.
