Treves

(trāv,) [Ger. TRIER; anc. August a Trevisorum,] an anc. city of Germany, p. Rhenish Pru ia, in the Valley of the Hochwald, and on the Moselle, 60 m. S. S.W. of Coblentz. The archbishops of T. were from the 12th cent. until the period of the French Revolution, electoral princes of the German empire. Pop. 21,849. [s. 906]