ANGERMUeNDE, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, on Lake Muende, 43 m. from Berlin by the Berlin-Stettin railway, and at the junction of lines to Prenzlau, Freien-walde and Schwedt.  Pop. (1900) 7465.  It has three Protestant churches, a grammar school and court of law.  Its industries embrace iron founding and enamel working.  In 1420 the elector Frederick I. of Brandenburg gained here a signal victory over the Pomeranians.

ANGERONA, or ANGERONIA, an old Roman goddess, whose name and functions are variously explained.  According to ancient authorities, she was a goddess who relieved men from pain and sorrow, or delivered the Romans and their flocks from angina (quinsy); or she was the protecting goddess of Rome and the keeper of the sacred name of the city, which might not be pronounced lest it should be revealed to her enemies; it was even thought that Angerona itself was this name.  Modern scholars regard her as a goddess akin to Ops, Acca Larentia and Dea Dia; or as the goddess of the new year and the returning sun (according to Mommsen, ab angerendo= [Greek:  apo tou anapheresthai. ton haelion).] Her festival, called Divalia or Angeronalia, was celebrated on the 21st of December.  The priests offered sacrifice in the temple of Volupia, the goddess of pleasure, in which stood a statue of Angerona, with a finger on her mouth, which was bound and closed (Macrobius i. 10; Pliny, Nat.  Hist. iii. 9; Varro, L.  L. vi. 23).  She was worshipped as Ancharia at Faesulae, where an altar belonging to her has been recently discovered. (See FAESULAE.)

ANGERS, a city of western France, capital of the department of Maine-et-Loire, 191 m.  S.W. of Paris by the Western railway to Nantes.  Pop. (1906) 73,585.  It occupies rising ground on both banks of the Maine, which are united by three bridges.  The surrounding district is famous for its flourishing nurseries and market gardens.  Pierced with wide, straight streets, well provided with public gardens, and surrounded by ample, tree-lined boulevards, beyond which lie new suburbs, Angers is one of the pleasantest towns in France.  Of its numerous medieval buildings the most important is the cathedral of St. Maurice, dating in the main from the 12th and 13th centuries.  Between the two flanking towers of the west facade, the spires of which are of the 16th century, rises a central tower of the same period.  The most prominent feature of the facade is the series of eight warriors carved on the base of this tower.  The vaulting of the nave takes the form of a series of cupolas, and that of the choir and transept is similar.  The chief treasures of the church are its rich stained glass (12th, 13th and 15th centuries) and valuable tapestry (14th to 18th centuries).  The bishop’s palace which adjoins the cathedral contains a fine synodal hall of the 12th century.  Of the other churches of Angers, the principal are St. Serge, an abbey-church of the 12th and 15th centuries, and La