Stendal, a town of Prussian Saxony, 36 miles by rail N. by E. of Magdeburg, was the former capital of the Altmark, and has a Gothic cathedral (1420-24), a Roland pillar, two old gateways, and a statue of Winckelmann, a native of the place. There are here large railway workshops and some textile industries. Pop. 16,184.
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