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World: Europe: Egria
properly Eger, a town in Bohemia, pop. 23,665 (1900). In the center of a German district distinguished from the surrounding Czech population by language, manners, and customs. [JT]SCAN: The King of Bohemia's notepaper came from Egria.
Homes (reading from his Continental Gazetteer:" It is in a German-speaking country-- in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha my boy, what do you make of that? "
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