REHOBOAM 



Rehoboam. Jewish king. Son 

 and successor of Solomon, his 

 treatment of the tribes led to a 

 revolt of all except Judah and 

 Benjamin, and a division of the 

 kingdom. He was author of the 

 phrase, " My father chastised you 

 with whips, but I will chastise you 

 with scorpions." During his reign 

 Judah was conquered by Shishak, 

 founder of the XXIInd Egyptian " 

 dynasty (1 Kings 12 and 14; 2 

 Chron. 12). 



Rehoboth. Town and dist. of 

 the S.W. Africa Protectorate. The 

 town is 60 m. due S. from Wind- 

 hoek, at the head of the Great Fish 

 River Valley. The dist. has a 

 coloured pop. of 9,300, about 

 4,000 of whom belong to the Bas- 

 tards, a tribe of mixed descent 

 who remained loyal to the Germans 

 during the Herero rebellion. In 1918 

 they petitioned to be taken under 

 the protection of Great Britain. 



Reich. German word meaning 

 empire, derived from one meaning 

 rule. Although the emperor dis- 

 appeared in 1918, the word was re- 

 tained in Germany, which, in spite 

 of having been made a republic, 

 was still known as Deutsches 

 Reich. See Germany. 



Reichenbach. Town of Saxony. 

 A rly. junction, it is 56 m. S. of 

 Leipzig in the district known 

 as the Vogtland. A centre for 

 the manufacture of textile goods, 

 machinery is also made. It is an 

 old town, and was at one time a 

 mining centre. Pop. 30,000. 



Reichenbach. Town of Silesia, 

 Germany. It stands on the Peile, 

 30 m. S.W. of Breslau. It has 

 some textile industries, and manu- 

 factures beor and machinery. It 

 is an agricultural centre. Here a 

 congress was held in 1790 at 

 which Great Britain and other 

 powers guaranteed the integrity of 

 Turkey, then threatened by Russia, 

 and here in June, 1813, Great 

 Britain, Austria, and other powers 

 agreed to continue the war against 

 France. A battle was fought here 

 during the Seven Years' War, 

 Aug. 16. 1762, Frederick defeating 

 the Austrians. Pop. 16,400. 



Reichenberg OR LIBEREC. Town 

 of Czecho-Slovakia, in Bohemia. 

 It is on the Neisse, 52 m. N.E. of 

 Prague. The Rathaus, built by 

 Neumann hi 1888-93, is a fine 

 example of the German Renais- 

 sance style, and the church of the 

 Holy Rood dates from 1696. First 

 known in 1348, the town is an 

 important industrial centre. Pop. 

 36,000. 



Reichenhall. Town and health 

 resort of Bavaria, Germany. It is 

 picturesquely situated amid lofty 

 hills, on the Saalach, 10 m. S.W. 

 of Salzburg. The convent of S. 



Zeno, formerly an Augustinian 

 monastery, was converted into 

 the convent school of the order of 

 Englische Fraulein (English girls). 

 The Romanesque church, dating 

 from the 12th century, contains a 

 relief of Barbarossa. The saline 

 springs are useful in cases of rheu- 

 matism and pulmonary affections. 



They are the source of supply 

 of Bavarian salt. An ingenious 

 system of hydraulic machinery 

 raises the brine over the mts., 

 some of which are nearly 2,000 ft. 

 high. It is then conducted by an 

 aqueduct from Berchtesgaden 

 through Reichenhall to Traun- 

 stein, a distance of about 60 m. 

 Pop. 6,000. i 



Reichsbank. National bank of 

 Germany, the equivalent of the 

 Bank of England. It was founded 

 in 1876 to serve as a bank for the 

 new empire, being based on the 

 existing Prussian state bank. It 

 has the power to issue notes and 

 serves the government as banker in 

 various ways. The capital is owned 

 by shareholders, but the state 

 shares in the profits. The head 

 office is in Berlin, and there are 

 branches throughout Germany. 

 The bank retained its privileges un- 

 changed after the overthrow of the 

 monarchy in 1918. Its original 

 charter expired in 1920, but was 

 then renewed. 



Reichsland. German word 

 meaning land of the empire. It 

 was applied specially to Alsace- 

 Lorraine during the period (1871- 

 1918) when it was part of the 

 German empire. The reason was 

 that it was directly under the im- 

 perial government at Berlin. 



Reichsralh. German for im- 

 perial council, the name given until 

 1918 to the parliament of Austria. 

 It consisted of the Herrenhaus, or 

 house of nobles, and the Abge- 



REICHSTADT 



ordnetenhaus, or house of repre- 

 sentatives. The members of the 

 former were the adult princes of 

 the Hapsburg family, a number of 

 nobles nominated by the emperor, 

 ten archbishops and seven bishops, 

 and certain men of repute as 

 scholars, scientists, and the like. 

 Members of the lower house were 

 elected by all male Austrians over 

 24 years old, single-member con- 

 stituencies being the rule. In Gali- 

 cia, however, each district returned 

 two members, and the system 

 allowed for the representation of 

 minorities. The house had 516 

 members, who were elected for six 

 years and were paid. They elected 

 their own president. Meetings of 

 the lower house were temporarily 

 suspended in March, 1914, and the 

 names and constitutions of the 

 houses were altered after 1918. It 

 met in Vienna. See Austria. 



Reichstadt, NAPOLEON FRAN- 

 CIS JOSEPH CHARLES, DUKE OF 

 (1811-32). Son of Napoleon I by 

 the emperor's 

 second mar- 

 riage, he was 

 born in Paris, 

 March 20, 

 ISll.and.amid 

 the rejoicings 

 at the birth of 

 an heir to the 



created king of 

 Rome. On the 

 fall of the em- 

 pire, which occurred m 1814, Napo- 

 leon abdicated in his favour, but 

 the empress Marie Louise hastened 

 with her child to Vienna, and no 

 effort was made to establish his 



Reichsratb, Vienna. A session of the Austrian house of representatives in 1917. 

 The president, Dr. Gross, is addressing the house from the tribune 



