CORTLAND, a city of New York, U.S.A., midway between Syracuse and Binghamton, on the Tioughnioga river, at the meet ing-point of seven valleys ; the county seat of Cortland county. It is on Federal highway 11, and is served by the Lackawanna and the Lehigh Valley railways. The population in 192o was 13,294; and in 1930 was 15,043 by the Federal census. Dairying and the breeding of Holstein cattle are the principal industries of the sur rounding country. The city has important manufactures (notably wire cloth and wire netting), with an aggregate output in 1927 valued at over $16,000,000. A State normal and training school (established 1869) is located here. The site of Cortland was part of the Phelps and Gorham purchase. It was settled in 1792. The city was chartered in 1900.