Breslau, the capital of Silesia, second city in Prussia; an important commercial and manufacturing centre, and has a first-class fortress; is on the Oder, 150 m. by rail SE. of Frankfort; it stands in the centre of the Baltic, North Sea, and Danube trade, and has a large woollen industry and grain market; there are a cathedral, university, and library.
Population (circa 1900) given as 335,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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