Barby, a town of Prussian Saxony, on the left bank of the Elbe, 15 miles SE. of Magdeburg. It is well built, and has an old castle. Pop. 6200, engaged in sugar-refining, shipbuilding, agriculture, and river navigation.
Barby
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 731
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