Troppau
the chief town and capital of the former Austrian Silesia; on the Oppa; 106 miles S. S. E. of Breslau.
It is surrounded by fine gardens, replacing the old walls and intrenchments, and has three suburbs, six churches (one Evangelical), an old town hall (lately rebuilt in Gothic style), a large barrack, a higher gymnasium and realschule, a teachers' training college, a commercial school, and several benevolent institutions. Troppau manufactured, before the World War, cloth (chiefly military), machinery, beet sugar, beer, potash, sodawater, lucifers, spirits, liquors, and paper. Troppau was founded in the 13th century. From Oct. 20 to Dec. 20, 1820, a congress of representatives ves of the five great powers, afterward transferred to Laibach, met here to plan for suppressing revolutionary outbreaks in Italy. Pop. about 35,000.