Tilsit

Tilsit, a town of the province of East Prussia, on the left bank of the Memel or Niemen, 65 miles NE. of Königsberg by rail, with some miscellaneous manufactures, and an active trade in timber, corn, hemp, flax, butter, &c. Here was signed, on an island in the river, the treaty of 1807 between Alexander I. of Russia and Napoleon, which marked the lowest depth of Prussia's humiliation, and took away (till 1815) half of her territory (see NAPOLEON). Pop. 23,500.