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SEMLIN (Hungarian, Zimony; Servian, Zemun) , a See also: town of Croatia-Slavonia, in the county of Syrmia, situated beside the See also: south See also: bank of the Danube, on a See also: tongue of See also: land between that See also: river and the Save
.
Pop
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(1goo) about 15,079; the majority being Serbs, the See also: remainder Croats, Jews, Germans, See also: Magyars and See also: Gipsies
.
Semlin is the seat of an Orthodox archbishop; but most of the inhabitants are See also: Roman Catholic
.
Apart from numerous churches, its chief buildings are the See also: law-courts, prison, theatre, synagogue, a higher grade school or real-gymnasium, and two technical See also: schools, one being for girls
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Much of the town is See also: modern, but its suburb Franzenthal near the Danube consists partly of mud huts thatched with reeds
.
See also: Standing at the confluence of two navigable See also: rivers, and on the See also: main See also: line from Buda-Pest to Constantinople and See also: Salonica, Semlin is the See also: principal customs and quarantine station for travellers between See also: Austria-Hungary and the See also: Balkan states
.
It communicates with Vienna and the Black See also: Sea, by the Danube; with Sissek, by the Save; and with Belgrade by a steam-See also: ferry and a See also: bridge over the Save
.
There are a few factories, but far more important is the transit See also: trade in grain, fruit, livestock and See also: timber
.
Various Roman remains have been discovered near Semlin
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On the top of Zigeunerberg, a See also: hill overlooking the Danube, are the ruins of the
See also: castle of See also: Hunyadi Janos, who died here in 1456
.
Until 1881 the town belonged to the Military frontier (q.v.)
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