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  1. Capital and tourist centre of Lucerne canton,
  2. Switzerland, on the Reuss where it flows out
  3. of Lake Lucerne; population (1987) 161,000.
  4. It developed around the Benedictine
  5. monastery, established about 750, and owes
  6. its prosperity to its position on the St
  7. Gotthard road and railway.
  8.