Colmar, the chief town of Upper Alsace, on the Lauch, on a plain near the Vosges, 42 m. SW. of Strasburg; passed into the hands of the French by treaty of Ryswick in 1697, was ceded to Germany in 1871.
Population (circa 1900) given as 30,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Colman, George * Colocetronis