Baireuth (Bai`reuth) , the capital of Upper Franconia, in Bavaria, with a large theatre erected by the king for the performance of Wagner's musical compositions, and with a monument, simple but massive, as was fit, to the memory of Jean Paul, who died there.
Population (circa 1900) given as 24,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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