Verden, a town of 8600 inhabitants in the Prussian province of Hanover, on the Aller near its junction with the Weser, and 20 miles SE. of Bremen by rail. It has an old Gothic church of 1290-1490, and is noted as the place where in 782 Charlemagne massacred his Saxon captives.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 457
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