See also:SZEGED (Ger., Szegedin)
, the See also:capital of the See also:county of Csongrad in See also:Hungary, 118 m
.
S.E. of See also:Budapest by See also:rail
.
Pop
.
(111900), 100,270
.
It is situated on both See also:banks of the See also:Theiss just below the confluence of the Maros, and contains the inner See also:town and four suburbs
.
It is the second town in Hungary as regards See also:population, and since the disastrous inundation of the Theiss on the See also:night of the rrth of See also:March 1879, which almost completely
destroyed it, See also:Szeged has been rebuilt
.
It is now one of the handsomest towns of Hungary, and has several large squares,
broad avenues, boulevards and many palatial buildings
.
It has also been encircled with a strong See also:dam in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to protect it from floods
.
Among the See also:principal buildings are a Franciscan See also:convent, with a See also:rich library and an interesting collection of antiquities and ecclesiastical See also:objects; a Piarist and a Minorite convent; a handsome new town-See also:- HALL
- 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 (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- 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)
hall; and a natural See also:history and See also:historical museum to which is attached a public library
.
Szeged is the See also:chief seat of the manufacture of paprica, a See also:kind of
red See also:pepper largely used in Hungary, and of a pastry called tarhonya; and has factories of See also:soap, See also:leather, boots, saw-See also:mills and distilleries
.
Szeged is the centre of the See also:commerce and See also:industry of the See also:great Hungarian Alfold, being an important railway junction and the principal See also:port on the Theirs
.
Since the 15th See also:century Szeged has been one of the most prominent cities in Hungary
.
From 154r till 1686 it was in See also:possession of the See also:Turks, who fortified it
.
It is also notorious for its many See also:witchcraft trials
.
In 1848 it sent strong detachments to the See also:national Hungarian See also:army
.
In See also:July 1849 the seat of the See also:government was transferred hither for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
.
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