Thorn

Thorn, a town and fortress of the first rank in West Prussia, on the Vistula, 115 m. NW. of Warsaw; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League (q.v.); was annexed by Prussia in 1815; the birthplace of Copernicus; carries on a brisk trade in corn and timber.

Population (circa 1900) given as 27,000.

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