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Albert (PRINCE OF MECKLEN- BURG)

PRINCE OF MECKLEN- BURG, was called to the throne of Sweden, 1364, by the nobility, who had deposed King Magnus. The Swedes being dissatisfied with Albert, who favored his German countrymen at their expense, offered the crown to Margaret, Queen of Denmark and Norway. After several ALBERTA years of war, Albert lost the decisive battle of Falköping, 1388, 1388, and was made a prisoner. Peace, however, was not reestablished in Sweden till 1395, when Albert consented to give up his claims to the crown. He then retired to Mecklenburg, where he died. ALBERT EDWARD NYANZA (Muta- Nzige, southern Luto Nzige), a lake of equatorial Africa, discovered by Stanley in 1876, and again visited by him in 1889. It occupies the southern end of a vast natural depression, of which the Albert Nyanza fills the northern extremity. It is 3,242 feet above sea-level; and beyond the depression in which it lies is a table land from 5,500 to 6,500 feet high. The water of the lake flows into the Albert Nyanza by the Semliki river.