Dresden

Dresden, the capital of Saxony, on the Elbe, 116 m. SE. of Berlin; a fine city, with a museum rich in all kinds of works of art, and called in consequence the “Florence of Germany”; here the Allies were defeated by Napoleon in 1813, when he entered the city, leaving behind him 30,000 men, who were besieged by the Russians and compelled to surrender as prisoners of war the same year.

Population (circa 1900) given as 250,000.

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