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BUNZLAU

Volume 5 · 114 words · 1860 Edition

the capital of a circle of the same name in the government of Liegnitz in Prussian Silesia. It is situated on the Bober, 24 miles W.N.W. of Liegnitz, and in 1849 had 6668 inhabitants. It has a hospital, orphan asylum, several churches and schools, and manufactures of linens, woollens, hosiery, earthenware, &c. In the market-place is a monument to the Russian general Kutusoff, who died there in 1813.

Jung, or New Bunzlau, the capital of the circle of Bunzlau in Bohemia, stands on the left bank of the Iser, a tributary of the Elbe, 32 miles N.E. of Prague. It has considerable manufactures of cotton and woollen goods, leather, &c., and about 5100 inhabitants.