Jena
[yey-nah] /ˈyeɪ nɑ/
noun
1.
a city in central Germany: Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians here in 1806.
/German ˈjeːna/
noun
1.
a city in E central Germany, in Thuringia: university (1558), at which Hegel and Schiller taught; site of the battle (1806) in which Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Prussians; optical and precision instrument industry. Pop: 102 634 (2003 est)
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