Wesel, a strongly fortified town of Prussia, at the confluence of the Lippe with the Rhine, 35 miles NW. of Düsseldorf by rail. Cloth, pottery, machinery, &c. are manufactured. Pop. (1890) 20,736.
Wesel
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 609
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