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ROSSLAU, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Anhalt, on the right bank of the Elbe, here crossed by two railway bridges, 3 M. by rail N. of Dessau and 35 M. S.E. of Magdeburg. Pop. (1905) .11,027. It has a ducal residence, an old castle, a hand-some parish church, and manufactures of machinery, paper, sealing-wax, wire goods, sugar, bricks and chemicals. Rosslau became a town in 1603.