Neuwied, a town of Prussia, on the right bank of the Rhine, 8 miles below Coblenz, was capital of the mediatised principality of Wied; the castle of the princes has a beautiful garden, in which are many Roman antiquities discovered here. The town contains an important institute of the Moravian Brethren, and there are some minor manufactures. Pop. 9656.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 451
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