Troppau, the capital of Austrian Silesia, on the Oppa, a tributary of the Oder, 184 miles by rail NE. of Vienna. It has an old town-hall, a library of 35,000 volumes, and manufactures of cloth, beet-root sugar, &c. Pop. 20,562.
Troppau
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 304
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