Fraustadt (Polish Wszowa), a town of Prussia, 14 miles NE. of Glogau by rail. It has a tannery, dye-works, a cigar and a sugar factory; and near the town are many windmills. Near here the Saxons under King Augustus of Poland were utterly routed by Charles XII. of Sweden, on 13th February 1706. Pop. 7378.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction
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