Gumbinnen, a thriving town of East Prussia, 72 miles by rail E. of Königsberg. Dating from 1724, it owes its prosperity to the settlement eight years later here of many Protestant Salzburgers. There are machine-works, &c. Pop. 10,206.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 464
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