Meerane, a prosperous manufacturing town of Saxony, 43 miles by rail S. of Leipzig. From an unimportant, small country town, it has increased rapidly in size and importance through the development of its woollen manufactures and the large export trade which it carries on with England, France, and America. Pop. (1849) 7345; (1890) 22,446. See Leopold's Chronik von Meerane (1863).
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