a circle in the government of Magdeburg and province of Saxony, in Prussia, formed out of a part of the principality of Halderstadt and the abbey of Quedlinburg. It contains 198 square miles, or 126,720 acres. The population in 1817 amounted to 36,283 persons. The Bode and the Eine are the chief rivers; and on their banks the land is highly fertile, producing great crops of corn, flax, and rape-seed. The city of Quedlinburg is the chief place of the circle.

a city in the circle of the same name, containing 1178 houses and 8731 inhabitants. It has an extensive trade in friezes, flannels, and other woollen goods, and in linen, leather, tobacco, and rape-oil.