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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOHACS  , a

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market
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town of
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Hungary, in the
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county of Baranya, 115 M . S. of
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Budapest . Pop . (1900), 15,812 . It is situated on the right
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bank of the
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Danube, and carries on a brisk
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trade in
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wine and the agricultural produce of the neighbourhood . Amongst its
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principal buildings are an old
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castle and the summer
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palace of the
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bishop of
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Pecs . Mohacs is famous in the
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history of Hungary by the two fateful battles which took
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place in the
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plain situated about 3 M.
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south-
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west of the town, and marked the beginning and the
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close of the
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Turkish dominion in Hungary . In the first (Aug . 29, 1526) the Hungarian
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army under
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Louis II . was annihilated by the
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Ottoman forces led by So]iman the Magnificent . In the second (Aug . 12, 1687) the Austrians under
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Charles of
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Lorraine gained a decisive victory over the
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Turks, whose
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power was afterwards still further broken by
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Prince
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Eugene of
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Savoy .

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