Rathenow, a town of Prussia, on the right bank of the Havel (here crossed by a stone bridge), 43 miles by rail W. by N. of Berlin. Optical instruments, wooden wares, machinery, bricks and tiles, are made. Pop. (1895) 18,418.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 587
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