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stretched about 600 metres along the bent village road. Today's urban area is much more extensive, stretching 3.3 kilometres (2.1 mi) north-south and 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) west-east, covering an area of 5.32 square kilometres (2.05 sq mi). It borders on the city core of
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in 1832, it continued to exercise the local jurisdiction. Under Saxony's 1838 Municipal Code, Gohlis was made a separate rural municipality with the right of local self-governance, ending the late-feudal system of manorialism. At that time, Gohlis comprised 54 houses and 578 inhabitants. During the
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