Augsburg

Augsburg (Augs`burg) , a busy manufacturing and trading town on the Lech, in Bavaria, once a city of great importance, where in 1531 the Protestants presented their Confession to Charles V., and where the peace of Augsburg was signed in 1555, ensuring religious freedom.

Population (circa 1900) given as 75,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)