SAGAN  , a

town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia, situated on the Bober, a tributary of the Oder, 6o m . S.S.E. of Frankfort-on-Oder and 102 M . S.E. of Berlin by the direct main line of railway to Breslau . Pop . (1905) 14,208 . It is still partly surrounded by its old fortifications and has numerous medieval houses . It contains the handsome palace of the dukes of Sagan . Among other buildings are an Evangelical church with a conspicuous steeple and containing the burial vaults of the ducal family, and Augustine and a Jesuit monasterial church, a medieval town-hall with old cloisters attached, a Roman Catholic gymnasium and a large hospital, named after its founder, the duchess Dorothea (1793–1862), wife of Edmund, duke of Talleyrand-Perigord-Dino . The leading industry of the town is cloth-weaving, with wool and flax spinning; there is also some trade in wool and grain . The mediate principality of Sagan, now forming a portion of the Prussian governmental district of Liegnitz, and formed in 1397 out of a portion of the duchy of Glogau, has several times changed hands by purchase as well as by inheritance . One of its most famous possessors was Wallenstein, who held it for seven years before his death in 1634 . Bought by Prince Lobkowitz in 1646, the principality remained in his family until 1787, when it was sold to Peter, duke of Courland, whose descendant, Prince Bozon (b .

1832), son of

Napoleon Louis (1811–1898), duke of Talleyrand-Perigord, owned it in 1910 . The principality has an area of nearly 5oo sq. m. and a population of 65,000 .