Jena is a city in eastern
Germany on the River
Saale in
Thuringia. Its population is 100,093. It is a manufacturing city, specializing in precision machinery, pharmaceuticals, optics and photographic equipment, and home to the famous
Zeiss optics plant. The university "Friedrich Schiller" at Jena was founded in
1558. The
University of Applied Sciences (
http://www.fh-jena.de) at Jena was founded in 1990. On
October 14,
1806 Napoleon fought the Prussian army here ("
Battle of Jena-Auerstedt[?]").
- Maps (http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=50.9333&long=11.5833&name=Jena&cty=Germany&alt=495)
- http://www.jena.de