a fortified seaport-town of Prussian Pomerania, government and 25 miles W. of Cöslin, on the right bank of the Persante, which falls into the Baltic about a mile below the town. The principal buildings are the cathedral, town-house, citadel, and aqueduct by which the town is supplied with water. Besides several churches and hospitals, Colberg contains a gymnasium, workhouse, house of correction, exchange, and orphan asylum. The chief manufactures are woollen cloth, salt, and spirits. Besides valuable salmon and lamprey fisheries, the town possesses a considerable trade. Pop. (1849) including military, 9480.