SEGESVAR (Ger. Schdssburg)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V24,
Page 582
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
SEGESVAR (Ger. Schdssburg)
, a town of Hungary, in Transylvania, the capital of the county of Nagy-KUullo, 126 m
.
S.E. of Koloszvar by rail
.
Pop
.
(1900) 10,857
.
Amongst the principal buildings are a Gothic See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
of the 15th century, the town and county See also: - HALL
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
, a German gymnasium with a good collection of antiquities, and the municipal museum
.
In front of the county hall is a bronze statue of the Hungarian poet Alexander Petofi (1823-1849), erected in 1897
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Segesvb.r has a good woollen and linen trade, as well as exports of wine and fruit
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Segesvar was founded by Saxon colonists at the end of the- SEGOVIA
12th century; its Latin name was Castrum Sex
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Here, on the 31st of July 1849, the Hungarian army under Bern was defeated by the overwhelming numbers of the Russian General Luders
.
Petofi is generally believed to have met his end in this battle
.
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