. A complete geography. Besidesbeing the capital of Prussia and of the German Empire, Berlin is thecentre of German banking. It is noted for its art and music, andfor its great university, tlie largest in the empire. There are a num-ber of suburbs, one beingPotsdam ( Fig. 438 ), theGerman Versailles, inwhich are located severalroyal j)alaces. Interior Cities nearBerlin. — Among the citiesnot far from Berlin isLeipzig, the fourth largestin the empire. It is situ-ated at the junction of twosmall streams at a point-where roads from the high-land meet those from thelowland. Formerly it wasa centre
. A complete geography. Besidesbeing the capital of Prussia and of the German Empire, Berlin is thecentre of German banking. It is noted for its art and music, andfor its great university, tlie largest in the empire. There are a num-ber of suburbs, one beingPotsdam ( Fig. 438 ), theGerman Versailles, inwhich are located severalroyal j)alaces. Interior Cities nearBerlin. — Among the citiesnot far from Berlin isLeipzig, the fourth largestin the empire. It is situ-ated at the junction of twosmall streams at a point-where roads from the high-land meet those from thelowland. Formerly it wasa centre for wagon roads,and now it has naturally become a railway centre. Owing toits favorable position, Leipzig is, next to Berlin, the most importanttrade centre of Germany. One of its leading articles of commerceis fur. It is the seat of a noted university, and a centre for theGerman book trade. Dresden, southeast of Leipzig, is noted for its art museum (), which rivals the Louvre of Paris. The beautiful Dresden. Fig. castle on the Rhine. GEBMAN EMPIRE 429 China IS made in this vicinity, and in recent years much manufactur-ing has developed, for Dresden is situated on a navigable river andhas coal near at hand. It is, moreover, the capital of Saxony, themost densely settled Ger-man state. Chema^itz, near by, hasimportant textile industries;and Halle and Magdeburg,farther to the northwest, andin the centre of the chiefbeet-growing area, are ex-tensively engaged in themanufacture of sugar. Breslau, only a littlesmaller than Leipzig, is ona navigable river, and hasthe advantage of beingnear a very rich coal andiron field. It is, therefore,a great manufacturing city,and its situation near thefrontier makes it an impor-tant market for easternand central Europe. Seaports. — Hamburg,which is larger than , is the second city inGermany, and the mostimportant seaport on thecontinent. The reasonsfor this are clear when it is known that the estuary of the Elbe(Fig. 43
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