Jauer, a town of Prussian Silesia, on the Neisse, 13 miles by rail S. of Liegnitz. It is famous for its sausages and its weekly corn-market, held regularly since 1404. Janer was formerly the market for the linen-trade of Silesia and the capital of a principality; but the Thirty Years' War ruined it. It now manufactures sugar, leather, cloth, &c. Pop. (1885) 11,178.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 292
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