Gör·litz (gûr l ts , g r-) A city of east-central Germany east of Dresden on the Polish border. It was founded c. 1200 and grew as a cloth-weaving center. A small part of the city on the eastern bank of the Neisse River was awarded to Poland after World War II. Population: 57,100. |
Görlitz (German) [ˈgœrlɪts]
n
(Placename) a city in E Germany, in Saxony on the Neisse River: divided in 1945, the area on the E bank of the river becoming the Polish town of Zgorzelec. Pop.: 70 450 (1991)
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