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MAROONS

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 748 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAROONS  . A negre marron is defined by

Littre as a fugitive slave who betakes himself to the woods; a similar definition of cimarron (apparently from cima, a mountain top) is given in the
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Dictionary of the
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Spanish Academy . The old
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English form of the word is symaron (see Hawkins's Voyage, § 68) . The
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term "Maroons" is applied almost as a proper name to the descendants of those negroes in
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Jamaica who at the first English occupation in the 17th century fled to the mountains . (See JAMAICA.) MAROS-VASARHELY, a
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town of Hungary in Transylvania, capital of the county of Maros-Torda, 79 M . E. of Kolozsvar by
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rail . Pop . (1900), 19,522 . It is situated on the
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left
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bank of the Maros, and is a well-built town, once the capital of the territory of the Szeklers . On a hill dominating the town stands the old fortress, which contains a beautiful church in
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Gothic style built about 1446, where in 1571 the
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diet was held which proclaimed the equality of the Unitarian Church with the
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Roman Catholic, the Lutheran, and Calvinistic Churches . The Teleki palace contains the Teleki collections, which include a library of 70,000 volumes and several valuable
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manuscripts (e.g. the Teleki Codex), a collection of old Hungarian poems, and a
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manuscript of Tacitus, besides a collection of antiquities and another of minerals . Maros-Vasarhely has also an interesting Szekler
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industrial museum .

The

trade is chiefly in
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timber, grain, wine,
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tobacco, fruit and other products of the neighbour-hood . There are manufactures of
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sugar,
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spirits and
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beer .

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