Barmen (Bar`men) , a long town, consisting of a series of hamlets, 6 m. in extent, in Rhenish Prussia; the population consists chiefly of Protestants; the staple industry, the manufacture of ribbons, and it is the centre of that industry on the Continent.
Population (circa 1900) given as 116,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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