Bautzen

American  

[bou-tsuhn] / ˈbaʊ tsən /

noun

1. a city in E Germany, on the Spree River: scene of defeat of Prussian and Russian armies by Napoleon I, 1813.

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Bautzen British  

/ ˈbaʊtsən /

noun

1. a town in E Germany, in Saxony: site of an indecisive battle in 1813 between Napoleon's army and an allied army of Russians and Prussians. Pop: 42 160 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

And Alexander Ahrens, the mayor of Bautzen, said Saxony has been slow to address its neo-Nazi problem, with previous state leaders reluctant to tackle it.

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2022

In areas like Bautzen, that drops to 51 percent.

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2022

Deutsche Welle reports that police intervened in protests in Rostock and Bautzen, though many of the protests were peaceful.

From Washington Times • Jan. 18, 2022

Rausch manages a hotel on the outskirts of Bautzen that was converted into a home for 300 asylum-seekers.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2016

These two corps, though co-operating, were at such a distance from each other, that they were much in the situation of the English and Prussians at Waterloo, or Napoleon and Ney's corps at Bautzen.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various