Pilsen, a town in Bohemia, 67 m. SW. of Prague; has numerous industries, and rich coal and iron mines, and produces an excellent beer, which it exports in large quantities. It was an important place during the Thirty Years' War.
Population (circa 1900) given as 50,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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