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See also: town in the county of Vas, in Hungary, 173 M
.
W. of See also: Budapest by See also: rail
.
Pop
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(1900), 7422
.
It is pleasantly situated in the valley of the Guns, and is dominated towards the west by the peaks of Altenhaus (2000 ft.) and of the Geschriebene Stein (2900 ft.)
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It possesses a See also: castle of Count Esterhazy, a See also: modern See also: Roman Catholic See also: Church in
See also: Gothic See also: style and two convents
.
It has important See also: cloth factories and a lively See also: trade in fruit and See also: wine
.
The town has a See also: special See also: historical See also: interest for the heroic and successful defence of the fortress by Nicolas Jurisics against a large army of Sultan Soliman, in July–August 1532, which frustrated the advance of the See also: Turks to Vienna for that See also: year
.
To the See also: south-See also: east of See also: Koszeg, at the confluence of the Guns with the Raab, is situated the town of Sarvar (pop
.
3158), formerly fortified, where in 1526 the first printing See also: press in Hungary was established
.
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