Posen

Grand-Duchy of, (po's en,) a p. of Pru ia, b. N. by E. Pru ia and Pomerania, E.by Poland, S.by Silesia, and W.by Pomerania and Brandenburg. Area, 11,500 sq. m. Surface flat; soil of average fertility. The Vistula is the pp. river. C. Posen. Pop. 1,537,338. -POSEN, a city, C. of above prov., on the Wartha, 126 m. S.E. of Stettin. Its trade is mostly in the hands of the Jews. Pop. 53,392. [s. 725]