Glatz (Czech Kladsko), a manufacturing town of Prussian Silesia, situated between two fortified hills, on the Neisse, 58 miles by rail SSW. of Breslau. Pop. (1875) 12,553; (1895) 14,151. During the Thirty Years' and the Seven Years' Wars Glatz was frequently taken.
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