or Gross Glogau, a strongly fortified town of Prussia, province of Silesia, and government of Liegnitz, on the left bank of the Oder, 35 miles N. of Liegnitz. The Dominsel or Cathedral island, in the Oder, is likewise strongly fortified, and is connected with the town by a wooden bridge. Glogau is the seat of a superior court, and has numerous churches, a synagogue, two hospitals, a Roman Catholic and a Protestant gymnasium, a citadel, and manufactures of woollens, cottons, hosiery, tobacco, paper, straw hats, &c. It carries on some trade by means of the river, and is connected by a branch with the Berlin and Breslau railway. Pop. (1849) 12,190, besides 3146 military. Ober or Klein Glogau, a town also in the province of Silesia, government of Oppeln, and 23 miles S. of the town of that name, on the right bank of the Hotzenplatz. It has a castle, a Roman Catholic seminary, and manufactures of linen and woollen goods. Pop. (1849) 4334.