Krefeld, in Rhenish Prussia, 12 m. NW. of Düsseldorf; important manufacturing town; noted for its silk and velvet factories founded by Protestant refugees; has also machinery and chemical works.
Population (circa 1900) given as 105,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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