KITZINGEN

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KITZINGEN , a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria on the Main, 95 M. S.E. of Frankfort-on-Main by rail, at the junction of the main-lines to Passau, Wurzburg and

Schweinfurt

SCHWEINFURT

. Pop. (rwoo), 8489. A bridge, 300 yards long, connects it with its suburb Etwashausen on the left bank of the river. A railway bridge also spans the Main at this point. Kitzingen is still surrounded by its old walls and towers, and has an Evangelical and two Roman Catholic churches, two municipal museums, a town-

hall

, a grammar school, a richly endowed

hospital

and two old convents. Its

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

industries

INDUSTRIES

are brewing, cask-making and the manufacture of cement and colours. Considerable trade in wine, fruit, grain and timber is carried on by boats on the Main. Kitzingen possessed a

Benedictine

BENEDICTINE

abbey in the 8th century, and later belonged to the bishopric of Wurzburg.
See F. Bernbeck, Kitzinger Chronik 745-1565 (Kitzingen, 1899).
KIU-KIANG FU, a prefecture and prefectural city in the province of Kiang-si, China. The city, which is situated on the south bank of the Yangtsze-kiang, 15 M. above the point where the Kan Kiang flows into that river from the Po-yang lake, stands in 29 42' N. and 116 8' E. The north face of the city is separated from the river by only the width of a roadway, and two large lakes lie on its west and south fronts. The walls are from 5 to 6 m. in circumference, and are more than usually strong and broad. As is generally the case with old cities in China, Kiu-Kiang has repeatedly changed its name. Under the Tsin dynasty (A.D. 265-420), it was known as Sin-Yang, under the Liang dynasty (502-557) as Kiang Chow, under the Suy dynasty (589-618) as Kiu-Kiang, under the Sung dynasty (960-1127) as Ting-Kiang, and under the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) it assumed the name it at present bears. Kiu-Kiang has played its part in the history of the empire, and has been repeatedly besieged and sometimes taken, the last time being in February 1853, when the T'ai-p'ing rebels gained possession of the city. After their manner they looted and utterly destroyed it, leaving only the remains of a single street to represent the once flourishing town. The position of Kiu-Kiang on the Yangtsze-kiang and its proximity to the channels of internal communication through the Po-yang lake, more especially to those leading to the green-tea-producing districts of the provinces of Kiang-si and Ngan-hui, induced Lord

Elgin

ELGIN

to choose it as one of the treaty ports to be opened under the terms of his treaty (1861). Unfortunately, however, it stands above instead of below the outlet of the Po-yang lake, and this has proved to be a decided

drawback

DRAWBACK

to its success as a commerical port. The immediate effect of opening the town to foreign trade was to raise the population in one year from ro,000 to 40,000. The population in 1908, exclusive of foreigners, was officially estimated at 36,000. The foreign

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

extends westward from the city, along the bank of the Yangtsze-kiang, and is bounded on its extreme west by the P'un river, which there runs into the Yangtsze. The bund, which is 500 yards long, was erected by the foreign community. The climate is good, and though hot in the summer months is invariably cold and bracing in the winter. According to the customs returns the value of thetrade of the port amounted in 1902 to 2,8J4,704, and in 1904 to 3,489,816, of which 11726,506 were imports and 1,763,310 exports. In 1904 322,266 lb. of opium were imported.

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