Halle

Halle, a flourishing city in Prussian Saxony, on the Saale, 20 m. NW. of Leipzig; has a splendid university attended by upwards of 1500 students, and a library of 220,000 vols.; some fine old Gothic churches, medical institutes, hospitals, &c.; it is is an important railway centre, and is famed for its salt-works.

Population (circa 1900) given as 101,000.

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