Frankfort

(frangk'fürt,) in Kentucky, a town, C. of the State, and judicial seat of Franklin county, on the Kentucky River, 24 miles W.N.W. of Lexington. Pop. 5,396. Frankfort-on-the-Main, (frăngkfoort,) a celebrated city of Germany, formerly one of the members of the Hanseatic League, on the Main, 20 m. N.E. of Mentz. F. is divided by the river into 2 unequal parts-P. Proper, and Sachsenhausen, and contains numerous imposing edifices, both ancient and modern. It is, besides, one of the leading commercial centres of Europe, and has important manu fs. Founded by the Franks in the 5th cent., F. became their Eastern cap. from 843 till 889; and after 1152, the place of election of the German emperors. It was made a free city in 1259, and taken by the French in 1750, 1792, and 1796, which people included it in the Rhenish Confederation, 1806, and 4 years afterward formed it into a duchy. In 1815 it was declared by the Congre of Vienna one of the 4German free cities, and the seat of the Diet. Since 1866 it has become incorporated with Pru ia. Pop. 97,426. Frankfort-on-the-Oder, (-i'dr,) at own ofPru ia, p.Brandenburg, 48 m. S.E. of Berlin, and a place of considerable trading importance. Pop. 40,994. [s. 382]