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GERMAN EMPIRE

III. Pkincipal Towns.

German towns are officially distinguished as large towns (with 100,000 inhabitants and upwards) ; medium towns (20,000-100,000 inhabitants) : small towns (5,000-20,000 inhabitants), and country towns (2,000-5,000 in- habitants). In 1895, only 1 town had over 1,000,000 inhabitants ; 6 others over 250,000 ; 21 others OA^er 100,000 ; 29 between 50,000 and 100,000 ; and 121 between 20,000 and 50,000. According to the results of the census of December 2, 1895, the population of the principal towns at that date was : —

Town

State

Pop.

Town

State

Pop.

Berlin.

Prussia.

1,677,304

Charlotten-

Hamburg

Hamburg

625,552

burg.

Prussia.

132,377

jMunich

Bavaria.

407,307

Barmen


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126,992

Leipzig

Saxony.

399,963

Danzig.

5>

125,605

Breslau.

Prussia.

373,169

Halle-on-Saal

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116,304

Dresden

Saxony.

336,440

Brunswick

Brunswick

115,138

Cologne

Prussia ,

321,564

Dortmund

Prussia.

111,232

Frankfurt-on-

Aachen.

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110,551

Main.

>>

229,279

Krefeld.

>>

107,245

]\Iagdeburg.

J J

214,424

Mannheim.

Baden.

91,119

Hanover

>>

209,535

Essen.

Prussia.

96,128

Diisseldorf.

J}

175,985

Kiel.

>)

85,666

Konigsberg.

j>

172,796

Karlsruhe

Baden.

84,030

Nuremberg.

Bavaria.

162,386

Mulhausen.

Alsace-

Chemnitz

Saxony.

161,017

Lorraine

82,986

Stuttgart

Wtirttem-

Augsburg

Bavaria.

81,896

berg.

158,321

Kassel.

Prassia.

81,752

Altona.

Prussia.

148,944

Erfurt.

) J

78,174

Bremen

Bremen.

141,894

Mainz.

Hesse

76,300

Stettin.

Prussia.

140,724

Wiesbaden.

Prussia.

74,133

Elberfeld.

Prussia.

139,337

Posen.

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73,239

Strassburg.

Alsace-

Lorraine

135,608

For further details see under the separate States.

Religion.

The Constitution provides for entire liberty of conscience .and for complete social equality among all religious confessions. The relation between Church and State varies in different parts of the Empire. The order of the Jesuits is interdicted in all parts of Germany, and all convents and religious orders, except those engaged in nursing the sick and purely contemplative orders, have been suppressed. There are five Roman Catholic arch- bishops, and twenty bishoprics. The ' Old Catholics ' have a bishop at Bonn.