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 | | TILSIT, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of East Prussia, situated on the left bank of the Memel or Niemen, here crossed by an’iron railway bridge, 57 m. |
 | | Tilsit, which received civic rights in 1552, grew up around a castle of the Teutonic otder, known as the “Schalauner Haus,” founded in 1288. |
 | | Tilsit was occupied by Soviet forces in World War II and was transferred, along with other sections of East Prussia, to the USSR at the Potsdam Conference of 1945. |
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