Thiers, a manufacturing town in the French dept. of Puy-de-Dôme, on the right bank of the Durole, 23 miles ENE. of Clermont by rail. Its manufactures of cutlery, paper, and playing-cards gave to the town a certain importance in the 17th century. Pop. (1891) 11,993.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 175
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