Rheydt, a town of Rhenish Prussia, 19 miles by rail W. by S. from Düsseldorf, has manufactures of silks, velvets, cottons, machinery, hardware, paper, dyeworks, and breweries. Pop. (1880) 19,087; (1890) 26,962.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 689
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