RASSOVA, a small town in Bulgaria, situated on the right bank of the Lower Danube, at the point where the river makes its great bend to the northward, about 30 miles E.N.E. from Silistria. It is of importance from its position at the western end of the line of earth works called Trojan's Wall, which extends across the isthmus of the Dobrudecha from near Ralson to Kuetenje, on the Black Sea. Rasaova is slightly fortified ; it was occupied for a short time by the Russians in their invasion of Bulgaria in 1854.
1tASTADT, a fortified town, with 6000 inhabitants, in the grand duchy of Baden, is situated on the river Murg, near the right bank of the Rhine, at a distance by railway of 14 miles S. from Carlsruhe, and 26 miles N. by E. from Strasburg. It is regularly built. Among the public, structures is a fine palace, built on the model of that of Versailles, and till 1771 the residence of the margrave of Baden. There are three churches, two chapels, a lyceum, and a training-school for Catholic school-masters. Starch, snuff; tobacco, chicory, papier michd articles, firearms, mathematical and philosophical instruments, and carriages are manufactured. Itaatadt has been the scene of im
portant negotiations. Ou March 6, 1714, Prince Eugene and Marshal Villars signed a treaty of peace in this town, which put an end to the war of the Spanish succession. On the 9th of December, 1797, a congress was assembled at ltastadt to negotiate a peace between France and the German empire. lloberjeot and Bonnier, the French ambassadors at this congress, which was dissolved by the emperor April 7, 1799, were murdered on their way home, at about 500 paces outside the town : no satisfactory evidence was ever obtained respect ing the authors of the crime. During the late rebellion in Baden, tho republican insurgents having suffered various defeats from the auxiliary Prusaian troops, abut themselves up in Raatadt, which, after about a month's siege by the Prussians, surrendered uncon ditionally July 23, 1849.