Przemysl

Przemysl, a town of Austrian Galicia, on an affluent of the Vistula, 61 miles W. of Lemberg by rail. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic and a United Greek bishop, carries on a considerable trade, and has manufactures of machinery, spirits, wooden wares, &c. Since 1874 it has been strongly fortified. Pop. 22,040, fully one-third Jews.