FINSTERWALDE, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, on the Schackebach. a tributary of the Little Elster, 28 m. W.S.W~ of Cottbus by rail. Pop. (1905) 10,726. The town has a Gothic church (1581), a chteau, schools, cloth and cigar factories, iron-foundries, flour and saw mills and factories for machine building. The town, which is first mentioned in 1288, came into the possession of electoral Saxony from 1635 and of Prussia in 1815. The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia and... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen; Sorbian: Swobodny Stata Sakska) is at a land area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4. ... Events February 10 - The Académie française in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite. ... The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

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