Anna

( Com.) In the E. Indies, a coin of 12 pie, or the 16th part of a rupee, worth about $0.03. An'na, in Illinois, a city, in township of same name, of Union co. Pop. 2,295. Anna Comnena, a daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus I.; conspired at his death to give the crown to her husband Nicephorus Brennius, but in vain. She had considerable literary taste, and wrote the Alexiad , a history of her father's reign. D. 1148. Anna Ivanowna, empre of all the Ku ias. B. 1694. She was the daughter of the Czar Ivan Alexiowitch, married the Duke of Courland in 1710, and succeeded to the throne on the death of Peter II., in 1730. She invested her favorite Biron with almost absolute power, and he governed the empire with intolerable tyranny. During A.'s reign, Ru ia was at peace with her neighbors, excepting only the war in which she engaged to place August us III. on the throne of Poland; and that with the Turks in 1736, terminated by the peace of Belgrade in 1739. D. 1740. She was succeeded by her grand-nephew Ivan. An'naberg, (St.,) a mining town of Saxony, in the circle of the Erzgebirge, 8 m. S.W. of Marienburg. Its inhabitants are principally occupied in its mines, which produce tin, silver, and cobalt. Pop . about 10,500.