Halberstadt, an interesting old town in Prussian Saxony, 30 m. SW. of Magdeburg; the 13th-century cathedral is a fine specimen of Pointed Gothic, and the Church of Our Lady, a 12th-century structure, is in the Byzantine style; its industries embrace gloves, cigars, machines, sugar, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 37,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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