Baden

Grand*Duchy of, one of the more important States of the German empire, situated in the S. W. of Germany, to the W. of Wiirtemberg. It is divided into four districts, Con stance, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, and Mannheim; has an area of 5,823 square miles, and pop. 1,866,584. Baden sends threes members to the German Bundesrath, or Federal Council, and 14 deputies to the Diet. Two thirds of the population are Roman Catholics, the rest Protestants.