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See also:KOLOZSVAR (Ger. Klausenburg; See also:Rum. Cluj)
, a See also:town of See also:Hungary, in Transylvania, the See also:capital of the See also:county of Kolozs, and formerly the capital of the whole of Transylvania, 248 m
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E.S.E. of See also:Budapest by See also:rail
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Pop
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(1900), 46,670
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It is situated in a picturesque valley on the See also:banks of the Little Szamos, and comprises the inner town (formerly surrounded with walls) and five suburbs
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The greater See also:part of the town lies on the right See also:bank of the See also:river, while on the other See also:side is the so-called See also:Bridge Suburb and the citadel (erected in 1715)
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Upon the slopes of the citadel See also: Kolozsvar is the See also:literary and scientific centre of Transylvania, and is the seat of numerous literary and scientific associations . It contains a university (founded in 1872), with four faculties—See also:theology, See also:philosophy, See also:law and See also:medicine—frequented by about 190o students in 1905; and amongst its other educational establishments are a See also:seminary for Unitarian priests, an agricultural See also:college, two training See also:schools for teachers, a commercial See also:academy, and several secondary schools for boys and girls . The See also:industry comprises establishments for the manufacture of woollen -and See also:linen See also:cloth, See also:paper, See also:sugar, candles, See also:soap, earthenwares, as . well as breweries and distilleries . Kolozsvar is believed to occupy the site of a See also:Roman See also:settlement named Napoca . Colonized by See also:Saxons in 1178, it then received its See also:German name of Klausenburg, from the old word Klause, signifying a " See also:mountain pass." Between the years 1545 and 1570 large See also:numbers of the Saxon See also:population See also:left the town in See also:con-sequence of the introduction of Unitarian doctrines . In 1798 the town was to a See also:great extent destroyed by See also:fire . As capital of Transylvania and the seat of the Transylvanian diets, Kolozsvar from 183o to 1848 became the centre of the Hungarian See also:national See also:movement in the See also:grand principality; and in See also:December 1848 it was taken and garrisoned by the Hungarians under See also:General See also:Bern . |
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