Zweibrücken (Fr. Deux-ponts), an ancient county, from 1410 a duchy, now incorporated in the Bavarian Palatinate. Its old capital, Zweibrücken (Lat. Bipontinum), 45 miles by rail W. of Landau, has a large castle (now a court-house), many busy manufactories, and is notable for its Bipontine edition of the classics, beautifully printed at the ducal press from 1779. Pop. 10,534.
Zweibrücken
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 811
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