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ESSEGG See also: free See also: town, See also: municipality, and capital of the county of Virovitica (Verocze), in Croatia-Slavonia, on the right See also: bank of the Drave, 9 M
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W. of its confluence with the Danube, and 185 m
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S. of Buda-Pest by See also: rail
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Pop
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(1900) 24,930; chiefly See also: Magyars and Croats, with a few Germans and Jews
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At See also: Esseg the Drave is crossed by two See also: bridges, and below these it is navigable by small steamers
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The upper town, with the fortress, is under military authority; the new town and the See also: lower town, which is the headquarters of commerce, are under See also: civil authority
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The only buildings of note are the See also: Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, Franciscan and Capuchin monasteries, synagogue, gymnasium, See also: modern school, hospital, chamber of commerce, and See also: law-courts
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Esseg has a thriving See also: trade in grain, fruit, live-stock, See also: plum-See also: brandy and See also: timber
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Tanning, See also: silk-See also: weaving and See also: glass-blowing are also carried on
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Esseg owes its origin to its fortress, which existed as early as the See also: time of the See also: Romans under the name of Mursia; though the See also: present structure See also: dates only from 1720
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At the beginning of the Hungarian revolution of 1848 the town was held by the Hungarians, but on the 4th of See also: February 1849 it was taken by the Austrians under General Baron Trebersberg
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