AMBERG, a town in Bavaria, formerly capital of the Upper Palatinate, on both sides of the Vils, 42m. E. of Nurnberg by rail. Pop. (1933) 27,633. It has eleven churches; St. Martin's (I sth century) has good paintings and a tower 300f t. high. A former Jesuit monastery is now a grammar school and seminary. There is also a pilgrimage church on a hill (I ,6 21 ft.). The prin cipal manufactures are enamels, ironmongery and machinery, gold objects and furniture. In the neighbourhood are iron and coal mines. The Austrians defeated the French near Amberg in 1796.