BEFORT, or BELFORT, a second-class fortified town of France, in the department of Upper Rhine, and capital of an arrondissement of the same name, is situated on the Savoureuse, 38 miles S.S.W. of Colmar. It contains a handsome church, a college, and a public library of 20,000 volumes; and has several iron foundries and iron-wire factories. Pop. (1851) 5274. The arrondissement of the same name
2 Ibid. vol. i. pp. 277, 278, 299.
contains 9 cantons, and 192 communes. Pop. (1851) 132,591.