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BRISAC

Volume 1 · 56 words · 1771 Edition

a fortified town of Swabia, in Germany, situated on the eastern shore of the river Rhine, about thirty miles north of Strasbourg; E. long. 7° 15', and N. lat. 48° 10'.

New Brisac, a fortress on the western shore of the Rhine, opposite to Old Brisac. It is situated in Alsace, and belongs to the French.