a seaport-town of Denmark, duchy of Sleswick, at the head of a fiord, about 16 miles from its mouth in the Baltic, and 20 N. by W. of Sleswick. Next to Copenhagen it is the most important commercial town in the Danish dominions. It has a number of vessels engaged in the West India trade and in the Greenland whale fishery; shipbuilding, with its collateral branches of industry, is carried on to a considerable extent; and there are extensive sugar-refineries, distilleries, soap-works, paper-mills, &c. It has one German and three Danish churches, three market-houses, a school of navigation, midwifery school, exchange, theatre, and public library. The churchyard is interesting as containing the remains of the Danish soldiers who fell in the battle of Istedt (25th July 1850). The government has placed a marble headstone at each grave—officers and common soldiers—with the same simple inscription on each, viz., after the name and rank, "fell at Istedt." A railway has recently been opened connecting this town with Toning. Pop. (including suburbs) about 18,000.