Original: Meissen (in German orthography: Meißen; ; ) is a town of approximately 30,000 about  northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany.
Simplified: Meißen (Sorbian: Mišno) is a town of about 30,000 near Dresden on both banks of the Elbe in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany.