a fortified town of the circle of Arad, in the province of Farther Theiss, in Hungary. It stands on the river Maros, has a Catholic and a Greek church, and is the seat of a protopope. It contains 390 houses, and 2530 inhabitants, who make much culinary salt, and grow good corn and wine. Long. 21. 35. 7. E. Lat. 46. 5. 9. N.

LIPE, the capital of a county of the same name in the circle of Westphalia, in Germany. It is situated on a river of the same name, and was formerly the residence of the principal branch of the house of Lippe. It is now in the possession of the king of Prussia, and carries on a good trade in preparing timber for building vessels on the Rhine, with which it has a communication by the river Lippe. The country round it is unwholesome and marshy.

Long. 8° 12'. E. Lat. 51° 43' N.