Franeker, a handsome town of the Netherlands, province of Friesland, 9 miles WSW. of Leeuwarden by rail. It was formerly the seat of a university, founded in 1585, but abolished by Napoleon in 1810. Franeker possesses Elsinga's notable planetarium (1773-80). Pop. 6920.
Franeker
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction
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