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See also: Budapest by See also: rail
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Pop
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(111900), 100,270
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It is situated on both See also: banks of the Theiss just below the confluence of the Maros, and contains the inner See also: town and four suburbs
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It is the second town in Hungary as regards 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
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It is now one of the handsomest towns of Hungary, and has several large squares,
broad avenues, boulevards and many palatial buildings
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It has also been encircled with a strong See also: dam in See also: order to protect it from floods
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Among the See also: principal buildings are a Franciscan 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; and a natural
See also: history and See also: historical museum to which is attached a public library
.
Szeged is the chief seat of the manufacture of paprica, a 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-mills and distilleries
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Szeged is the centre of the commerce and industry of the See also: great Hungarian Alfold, being an important railway junction and the principal See also: port on the Theirs
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Since the 15th century Szeged has been one of the most prominent cities in Hungary
.
From 154r till 1686 it was in possession of theSee also: Turks, who fortified it
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It is also notorious for its many See also: witchcraft trials
.
In 1848 it sent strong detachments to the See also: national Hungarian army
.
In See also: July 1849 the seat of the See also: government was transferred hither for a See also: short See also: time
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