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1855
¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
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Page 61 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
Charles V. They received from the former patents of nobility and the privilege of coining money. In the following century (1619) the family numbered, in its 5 branches, 47 counts and countesses of the empire, all tracing their origin from a simple weaver of Augsburg, who at that time had scarcely been laid in his grave half a century. The name and the family are still numbered among those of the German noblesse ; but many of its branches have died off, and the living descendants of the patrician stock

the Cape, drove into other channels the commerce which it at one time monopolised. The sur viving trade and manufactures, al though they furnish no equivalent for that which it has lost, employ a large part of its reduced population. The most important business at present carried on here is banking and stock jobbing, Augsburg being, next to Frankfurt, one of the most influential money-markets on the Continent, " The situation of Bavaria iu the centre of Germany is favourable for the transit trade

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