a circle in the government of Magdeburg and province of Saxony, in Prussia, formed out of a part of the principality of Halberstadt and the abbey of Quedlinburg. It contains 198 square miles, or 126,720 acres. Pop. in 1849, 49,816. The Bode and the Elbe are the chief rivers; and on their banks the land is highly fertile, producing corn, flax, and rape-seed. Quedlinburg is the chief city of the circle.

a city in the circle of the same name, containing 1214 houses and 12,139 inhabitants. It has an extensive trade in friezes, flannels, and other woollen goods, and in linen, leather, tobacco, and rape-oil.