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MEISSEN

Volume 7 · 51 words · 1778 Edition

a considerable town of Germany, in the electorate of Saxony, and in the margravate of Misnia, with a castle. It formerly belonged to the bishop, but is now secularized, and the inhabitants are Lutherans. In this place is a famous factory of porcelain, E. Long, 13, 33, N. Lat. 51° 15'.