Belfort, a fortified town in dep. of Haut-Rhin, and is its capital, 35 m. W. by N. of Basel; capitulated to the Germans in 1870; restored to France; its fortifications now greatly strengthened. The citadel was by Vauban.
Population (circa 1900) given as 83,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Belfast * Belgæ