NYKJOBING  , a seaport of

Denmark, in the amt (county) of Maribo, on the west shore of the island of Falster, 94 M . S.S.W. of Copenhagen by rail . Pop . (1901) 7345 . Its church contains a genealogical tree of the Mecklenburg ducal family, with portraits, dating from 1627 or earlier . Here is the house occupied by Peter the Great of Russia in 1716, restored in 1898 . A railway runs south to Gjedser (14 m.), from which the sea-passage (29 m.) to Warnemunde links the fastest route between Copenhagen and Berlin . Other towns of the name of NYKJOBING in Denmark are (1) on Limfjord in Thisted amt (pop . 4492); and (2) in Zealand, Holbaek amt (pop . 2000) .