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Encyclopedia Britannica



GOLDBERG

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 203 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GOA-GRA
GOLDBERG , a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia,' 14 m. by rail S.W. of
Liegnitz
 , on the Katzbach, an affluent of the Oder. Pop. (1905) 6804. The principal buildings are an old church dating from the beginning of the 13th century, the Schwabe-Priesemuth institution, completed in 1876, for the board and- education of orphans, and the classical school or gymnasium (founded in 1524 by Duke Frederick II. of
Liegnitz
 ), which in the 17th century enjoyed
great
  prosperity, and numbered Wallenstein among its pupils. The
chief
  manufactures are woollen cloth,
flannel
 , gloves, stockings, leather and beer, and there is a considerable trade in corn and fruit. Goldberg owes its origin and name to a gold mine in the neighbourhood, which, however, has been wholly abandoned since the time of the Hussite wars. The town obtained civic rights in 1211. It suffered heavily from the
Tatars
  in 1241, from the plague in 1334, from the Hussites in 1428, and from the Saxon, Imperial and Swedish forces during the Thirty Years' War. On the 27th of May 1813 a battle took-place near it between the French and the
' Goldberg is also the name of a small town in the grand-duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Russians; and on the 23rd and the 27th of August of the same year fights between the allies and the French.
See Sturm, Geschichte der Stadt Goldberg in Schlesien (1887). GOLD,
COAST
 , that portion of the
Guinea
 
Coast
  (West Africa) which extends from Assini upon the west to the river Volta on the
east
 . It derives its name from the quantities of grains of gold mixed with the sand of the rivers traversing the
district
 . The term Gold Coast is now generally identified with the British Gold Coast colony. This extends from 30 7' W. to 1 14' E., the length of the coast-line being about 370 M. It is bounded W. by the Ivory Coast colony (French), E. by Togoland (German). On the north the British possessions, including Ashanti (q.v.) and the Northern Territories, extend to the 11th degree of north
latitude
 . The frontier separating the colony from Ashanti (fixed by order


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