Ditmarsh, a low-lying fertile district in West Holstein, between the estuaries of the Elbe and the Eider; defended by dykes; it had a legal code of its own known as the “Ditmarisches Landbuch.”
Population (circa 1900) given as 77,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dithyramb * Ditton, Humphry