Kiel

Kiel, on the Baltic, 60 m. N. of Hamburg, is the capital of Schleswig-Holstein, a German naval station and important seaport, with shipments of coal, flour, and dairy produce; has shipbuilding and brewing industries, a university and library, and is the eastern terminus of the Baltic Ship Canal, opened 1895.

Population (circa 1900) given as 69,000.

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