city, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the Prussian government of Erfurt. It stands on a gentle elevation above the river Salza, is fortified, and defended by a castle, and contains four churches, four hospitals, with 940 dwelling-houses, and 6840 inhabitants. It is the most considerable manufacturing city in the Prussian part of Thuringia, making goods of silk and linen, both cloth and hosiery, and having powerful mills for spinning cotton twist. It is also a place of great commerce in corn, and the other products of the fertile soil around it. Long. 10. 33. 25. E. Lat. 51. 6. 59. N.