a considerable town of Lower Saxony in Germany, and in the duchy of Brunswick; formerly free and imperial, but afterwards subject to the elector of Hanover. Here his late majesty George II. Gottingen founded an university. It is seated on the river Leine, in E. Long. 9. 52. N. Lat. 51. 32.

GOTTÖRP, a town of the duchy of Sleswie, in Denmark, and capital of the duchy of Holstein Gottorp, where the duke has a very fine palace.