Dillingen, a town of Bavaria, on the Danube, 51 miles WSW. of Ingolstadt by rail, with two monasteries, a royal high school, a seminary, and a girls' deaf-and-dumb institution. In the old castle the bishops of Augsburg formerly resided, and here they founded a university (1554-1804), which from 1564 was an active Jesuit centre. Pop. 5860.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 822
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