Pirmasens, a town of the Bavarian Palatinate, and formerly the chief town of the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg, 34 miles by rail W. of Landau. The chief manufactures are shoes and musical instruments. Close by the Prussians under the Duke of Brunswick defeated the French commanded by Moreau on 14th September 1793. Pop. (1885) 14,938; (1895) 24,548.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 194
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