a town of Prussia, in the government of Breslau, on the Oelsa, 17 miles N.N.E. of Breslau. It is fortified; and has an extensive ducal palace built in the form of a square, and containing a good library; a Roman Catholic and three Protestant churches, a synagogue, several schools, an hospital, and a theatre. Manufactures of woollen, linen, and silken stuffs are carried on here; and there are oil and other mills. Pop. 6928.

OENIADÆ (modern Trikardho), an important town of Arcamania in ancient Greece, was situated on the western bank of the Achelous (Aspropotamo), about 2 miles from the mouth of that river. Its name was probably derived from Æneus, a legendary Ætolian hero. It stood on an insulated hill, strengthened by massive walls, and surrounded on all sides by extensive morasses. These fortifications, natural and artificial, rendered the town for a considerable time a formidable and invincible foe to the Athenians. Pericles was unable to take it by siege in Oenotria 454 B.C.; Phormion advanced against it in 429 B.C., but could not pass across the swamps; and it was not until 424 B.C. that it was forced by the general Demosthenes to take the Athenian side in the Peloponnesian war. This seems to have been a fatal blow to the independence of Oeniadæ. In the latter half of the fourth century B.C. it was taken by the Ætolians; in 219 B.C. it passed into the hands of Philip, King of Macedonia; and in 211 B.C. it was captured by the Romans, and given once more to the Ætolians. Although the citizens were freed from the domination of their fellow-countrymen in 189 B.C., they never recovered their former importance. From that date Oeniadæ disappeared from the arena of history. Large portions of its walls still remain in excellent preservation.

OENOTRIA: See ITALY.