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 | | CONSTANCE, LAKE OF (called by the Romans Lacus Brigantinus or lake of Bregenz, and now usually named in German Bodensee, as well as the Swabian Sea), the most extensive sheet of water in the Alpine region, after the Lake of Geneva. |
 | | Its surface is 1309 ft. above sea-level, the greatest width is 101/2 m., and the greatest depth 827 ft. The area of the lake is 2043/4 sq. |
 | | Austria has held Bregenz, at the south-eastern angle of the lake, since 1451, while the north end of the lake belongs to Baden (Constance held since 1805), and bits of its eastern shore form part of Wtirttemberg (Friedrichshafen, formerly called,Buchhorn, since 1810) and of Bavaria (Lindau since 1805). |
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