Dirschau, a manufacturing town of Prussia, on the left bank of the Vistula, 20 miles SSE. of Danzig by rail, the line here crossing the river by a lattice viaduct (1850-57) 911 yards long. Polish from 1466 till 1772, it now has great railway works and sugar-factories. Pop. (1875) 9727; (1885) 11,416; (1890) 11,897.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 8
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