Frankfort-on-the-Main, one of the old free cities of Germany, a centre of importance under the Kaisers and the seat of the Diet of the Germanic Confederation, and one of the great banking cities of the world; it is the birthplace of the poet Goethe, and is associated with his early history.
Population (circa 1900) given as 180,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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