ELLOBGEN, a circle in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia, extending over 1343 square miles, and comprehending forty-three cities and towns and 609 villages, with 32,829 houses and 193,537 inhabitants. The chief town, of the same name, stands on a steep rock, at the foot of which runs the river Eger, which makes a bend that nearly surrounds it. It contains 457 houses, with 1508 inhabitants, who subsist by handicraft employments, and by the preparation of alum and of sulphur.