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Bjorneborg

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(Finnish, Pori), a district town of Finland, province of Abo-Bjorneborg, on the E. coast of the Gulf of Bothnia, at the mouth of the Kumo. Lat. 51 0 8' N., long. 46° o' E. Pop. (1904) 16,053, mostly Swedes. Large vessels cannot enter its roadstead, and stop at Rafso. The town has shipbuilding wharves, machine works, and several tanneries and brick-works, and has a total trade of over 16,000,000 marks, the chief export being timber.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Bjorneborg'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​b/bjorneborg.html. 1910.
 
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