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Leman

GENERAL, a Belgian soldier. He was born at Liège in 1851 and LEMOINE a grown up. Lemberg is the seat of a Roman Catholic, a Greek United, and an Armenian archbishop , and has nearly 30 churches. The Dominican contains a image of the Virgin; style in 1740-1779; the Gothic Roman the Greek cathedral , built in the Italian Catholic cathedral (1350-1640); and the 14th century. Here also is the seat of Armenian cathedral, dating from the Armenian cathedral , the national institute founded (1784) by al, dating from the Joseph II., with a library of over 81,000 volumes and 3,000 MSS., chiefly of Polish literature. There is a considerable trade in flax, hemp, cloth , leather, and agricultural products.

The manufactures embrace machinery , earthen-ware, oil, was educated at the Athenæum, Brussels, beer, etc. Founded in 1259, Lemberg after which he went into the army and attended a military school. He showed considerable talent and was gradually promoted until he had command of the GENERAL LEMAN Belgian army situated at the stronghold of Liège. He commanded the Belgian forces that opposed the invasion of the German army in 1914, and was resof a fort destroyed by the big German guns. died in 1921.

He was an important city of Poland from 1340. It has been several times besieged, on the last occasion in 1848. It fell to Austria at the first partition of Poland.

In the World War when the Russians in 1914, Lemberg was captured on Sept. 3. It was retaken by the Germans June 22, 1915. Pop. about 212,000.

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