Eger, a town in Bohemia, on the river Eger, 91 m. W. of Prague, a centre of railway traffic; Wallenstein was murdered here in 1634; the river flows into the Elbe after a NE. course of 190 m.
Population (circa 1900) given as 17,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Egede, Paul * Egeria