Anhalt

a duchy of North Germany, lying partly in the plains of the Middle Elbe, and partly in the valleys and uplands of the Lower Harz, and almost entirely surrounded by Pru ia; area, 906 square miles. The united principality is now incorporated in the German Empire, and has one vote in the Bundesrath and two in the Reichstag. Pop. (1900) 316,085. The chief towns are De au, Bernburg, Kéthen, and Zerbst.