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MAROONS
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A negre marron is defined by See also:Littre as a fugitive slave who betakes himself to the See also:woods; a similar See also:definition of cimarron (apparently from cima, a See also:mountain See also:top) is given in the See also:Dictionary of the See also:Spanish See also:Academy
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The old See also:English See also:form of the word is symaron (see See also:Hawkins's Voyage, § 68)
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The See also:term "Maroons" is applied almost as a proper name to the descendants of those negroes in See also:Jamaica who at the first English occupation in the 17th See also:century fled to the mountains
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(See JAMAICA.)
MAROS-VASARHELY, a See also:town of See also:Hungary in Transylvania, See also:capital of the See also:county of Maros-Torda, 79 M
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E. of See also:Kolozsvar by See also:rail
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Pop
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(1900), 19,522
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It is situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the Maros, and is a well-built town, once the capital of the territory of the See also:Szeklers
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On a See also: The See also:trade is chiefly in See also:timber, See also:grain, See also:wine, See also:tobacco, See also:fruit and other products of the See also:neighbour-See also:hood . There are manufactures of See also:sugar, See also:spirits and See also:beer . |
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