Bremen, the chief seaport of Germany, after Hamburg; is on the Weser, 50 m. from its mouth, and is a free city, with a territory less than Rutlandshire. Its export and import trade is very varied; half the total of emigrants sail from its docks; it is the head-quarters of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company. Textiles, tobacco, and paper industries add to its prosperity; was one of the principal cities of the Hanseatic League.
Population (circa 1900) given as 126,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Brehon Laws * Bremer, Fredrika