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Extract from the Cottbus (Chosebuz) Travel Guides:
At the southern end of the Spreewald stands
COTTBUS
, formerly the capital of one of the three
Bezirke
into which Brandenburg was divided in GDR days. It has a long industrial tradition, the twin pillars of the local economy being the textile industry, established by Dutch settlers in the Middle Ages and later developed by Huguenot refugees, and coalmining, which was the chief cause of the city's rapid growth in the nineteenth century. Because of this pedigree, Cottbus was seen by the Communists as something of a role model for the rest of the country, though its mixture of crumbling old tenements and Stalinist-style...
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