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TRAUN, OTTO FERDINAND, COUNT VON ABENSPERG UNO (1677-1748), Austrian field marshal, came of a noble family and was born on the 27th of August 1677 at Oldenburg. He was sent to Halle to complete his education, but in 1693 left the university to serve with the P ...

TRAUNSTEIN, a town and summer resort of Bavaria, situated, at an elevation of nearly 2000 ft., on the river Traun, 73 m. by rail S.E. of Munich. Pop. (1905), 7447. It distils salt from the brine of Reichenhall, whence (22 m. distant) it is brought in pipes. It ...

TRANI, a seaport and episcopal see of Apulia, Italy, on the Adriatic, in the province of Bari, and 26 m. by rail W.N.W. of that town, 23 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (1901), 34,688. Trani has lost its old walls and bastions, but the 13th-century Gothic citadel is

TRUNK (Fr. tronc, Lat. truncus, cut off, maimed), properly the main stem of a tree from which the branches spring, especially the stem when stripped of the branches; hence, in a transferred sense, the main part of a human or animal body without the head, arms

TORGAU, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Saxony, situated on the left bank of the Elbe, 30 m. N.E. of Leipzig and 26 m. S.E. of Wittenberg by rail. Pop. (1905), 12,299. Its most conspicuous building is the Schloss Hartenfels, on an island in the

TURBAN, the name of a particular form of head-dress worn by men of Mahommedan races. The earlier forms of the word in English are lurbant, turband, and tolibant or lulipant, the latter showing that variant of the original which survives in the name of the flow

... ea of 50,377 sq.m. Its principal affluents in Austria, besides the Inn, are the Traun, the Enns and the March. The Dniester, which, like the Danube, flows into the Black Sea, has its source in the Carpathians in Eastern Galicia, and pursues a very winding cour ...

... zig, 1880); viaix, C>trta \'oka*olo[i«i t lopofraphicit deU'Etna (showing lava •trauni up to 1892); O. de Lorenxu, L Etna (Bergamo, 1907). ETNA, a borough of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., in the western part of the state, on the \V. bank of the Alleg ...