GYOR (Ger. Raab)  , a town of Hungary, capital of a county of the same name, 88 m . W. of Budapest by rail . Pop . (Igoo) 27,758 . It is situated at the confluence of the Raab with the Danube, and is composed of the inner town and three suburbs . Gyor is a well-built town, and is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop . Amongst its principal buildings are the cathedral, dating from the 12th century, and rebuilt in 1639-1654; the bishop's palace; the town hall; the Roman Catholic seminary for priests and several churches . There are manufactures of cloth, machinery and tobacco, and an active trade in grain and horses . Twenty miles by rail W.S.W. of the town is situated Csorna, a village with a Premonstratensian abbey, whose archives contain numerous valuable historical documents . Gyor is one of the oldest towns in Hungary and occupies the site of the Roman Arabona . It was already a place of some importance in the loth century, and its bishopric was created in the 11th century . It was a strongly fortified town which resisted successfully the attacks of the Turks, into whose hands it fell by treachery in 1594, but they retained possession of it only for four years .

Montecucculi made Gyor a first-class fortress, and it remained so until 1783, when it was abandoned . At the beginning of the 19th century, the fortifications were re-erected, but were easily taken by the French in 1809, and were again stormed by the Austrians on the 28th of June 1849 . About 11 m . S.E. of Gyor on a spur of the Bakony Forest lies the famous Benedictine abbey of Pannonhalma (Ger . St Martinsberg; Lat . Mons Sancti Martini), one of the oldest and wealthiest abbeys of Hungary . It was founded by King St Stephen, and the original deed from loos is preserved in the archives of the abbey . The present building is a block of palaces, containing a beautiful church, some of its parts dating from the 12th century, and lies on a hill 1200 ft. high . The church has a tower 130 ft. high . In the convent there are a seminary for priests, a normal school, a gymnasium and a library of 120,000 vols . The chief abbot has the rank of a bishop, and is a member of the Upper House of the Hungarian parliament, while in spiritual matters he is subordinate immediately to the Roman curia .