Pardubitz
a town of Czecho- Slovakia, at the junction of the Chrudimka and the Elbe rivers. Prior to the World War it was in a province of Bohemia and part of the former Austro- Hungarian empire. It has a palace, several churches and public institutions.
Before the war there were manufactories of spirits, sugar, agricultural imple- PARESIS ments, lumber and flour. Pop. (1910) 20,419.