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RANDERS , a town of Denmark, capital of the amt (county) of its name in Jutland, on the Gudenaa at the point where it begins to widen into Randers Fjord, an inlet of the Cattegat. Pop. (1901) 20,057. The town is 15 M. from the open Cattegat and the harbour has 15 ft. depth on the bar. The chief
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meeting -place of insurgents against Knud, the saint Randers has few remains of old buildings and bears the stamp of a compact, modern manufacturing town that owes its importance to its distilleries, manufactories of gloves, railway carriages, &c. St Marten's church dates
in a medieval monastery, which was restored in 189497. There is a statue to Steen S. Blither (1782-1848), the national poet and novelist of Jutland. Randers is best known in history as the scene of the assassination of Count Gerhard by Niels Ebbeson in 1340. In the middle ages it had six churches and four monastic establishments, the oldest a Benedictine
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