Gleiwitz, a town of Prussian Silesia, pleasantly situated on a small affluent of the Oder, 40 miles SE. of Oppeln, contains iron and other metal foundries, machine, glass, and iron works, &c. Pop. (1895) 24,980.
Gleiwitz
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 251
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