Berne

Berne, a fine Swiss town on the Aar, which almost surrounds it, in a populous canton of the same name; since 1848 the capital of the Swiss Confederation; commands a magnificent view of the Bernese Alps; a busy trading and manufacturing city.

Population (circa 1900) given as 47,000.

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