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See also:MITROVICA (Hungarian, Mitrovicz; See also:German, Mitrowitz) , a See also:town of Croatia-Slavonia, See also:Hungary, situated on the See also:river See also:Save, in the See also:county of Syrmia . Pop . (1900), 11,518 . See also:Mitrovica is on the railway from See also:Agram, 170 M . W.N.W. to See also:Belgrade, 38 m . E. by S . See also:Roman remains have been discovered in its neighbourhood, and it occupies the site of Sirmium or Syrmium, the See also:chief See also:city of See also:Lower See also:Pannonia under Roman See also:rule . The See also:emperor See also:Probus (232–282) was See also:born and buried at Sirmium, where, according to some authorities, the emperor See also:Marcus Aurelius (121–18o) also died; but this is uncertain . In 351, 357 and 358, ecclesiastical See also:councils of some importance met at Sirmium, which became an episcopal see about 305, and was See also:united with the See also:diocese of Bosnia in 1773 . The city was sacked by the See also:Huns in 441, and by the See also:Turks, who destroyed all its See also:ancient buildings, in 1396 and 1521 . |
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