Rostock

Rostock, a busy German port in Mecklenburg, on the Warnow, 7 m. from its entrance into the Baltic; exports large quantities of grain, wool, flax, &c., has important wool and cattle markets; shipbuilding is the chief of many varied industries, owns a flourishing university, a beautiful Gothic church, a ducal palace, &c.

Population (circa 1900) given as 44,000.

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