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See also:BRASEO (Ger. See also:Kronstadt; Rumanian, Brasov) , a See also:town of See also:Hungary, in Transylvania, 206 m. S.E. of See also:Kolozsvar by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 34,511. It is the See also:capital of the comitat (See also:county) of the same name, also known as Burzenland, a fertile See also:country inhabited by an industrious See also:population of Germans, See also:Magyars and Rumanians. Brass6 is beautifully situated on the slopes of the Transylvanian See also:Alps, in a narrow valley, shut in by mountains, and presenting only one opening on the See also:north-See also:west towards the Burzen See also:plain. The town is entirely dominated by the Zinne of Kapellenberg, a See also:mountain rising 1276 ft. above the town (See also:total See also:altitude 3153 ft.), from which a beautiful view is obtained of the lofty mountains around and of the carefully cultivated plain of the Burzenland, dotted with tastefully built and well-kept villages. On the See also:summit of the mountain is one of the numerous monuments erected in 1896 in different parts of the country to commemorate the thousandth anniversary of the See also:foundation of the Hungarian See also:state. It is known as Arpad's See also:Monument, and consists of a Doric See also:column erected on a circular See also:pedestal, which supports the See also:bronze figure of a See also:warrior from the 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 of Arpad.
Brasso consists of the inner town, which is the commercial centre, and the suburbs of Blumenau, Altstadt and Obere Vorstadt or Bolgarszeg, inhabited respectively by Germans, Magyars and Rumanians. To the See also:east of the inner town rises the Schloss-See also:berg, crowned by the citadel, which was erected in 1553, and constitutes the See also:principal remaining fragment of the old fortifications with which Brasso was encircled.
The most interesting See also:building in the town is the See also:Protestant 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)
church, popularly called the See also:Black Church, owing to its See also:smoke-stained walls, caused by the See also:great See also:fire of 1689. This church, the finest in Transylvania, is a See also:Gothic edifice with traces of Romanesque See also:influence, and was built in 1385–1425. In the square in front of it is the statue of Johannes Honterus (1498–1549), " the apostle of Transylvania," who was See also:born in Brasso, and established here the first See also:printing-See also:press in Transylvania. In the principal square of the inner town stands the 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, built in 1420 and restored in the 18th See also:century, with a See also:tower 190 ft. high. Brasso is the most important commercial and manufacturing town of Transylvania. Lying near the frontier of See also:Rumania, with easy See also:access through the Tomos pass, it See also:developed from the earliest time an
active See also:trade with that country and with the whole of the See also:Balkan states. Its See also:chief See also:industries are See also:iron and See also:copper See also:works, See also:wool-See also:spinning, See also:turkey-red See also:dyeing, See also:leather goods, See also:paper, See also:cement and See also:petroleum refineries. The See also:timber See also:industry in all its branches, with a speciality for the manufacture of the wooden bottles largely used by the peasantry in Hungary and in the Balkan states, as well as the See also:dairy industry, and See also:ham-curing are also fully developed. A peculiarity of See also:Brass(), which constitutes a survival of the old methods of trade with the Balkan states, is the number of See also:money-changers who ply their trade at small movable tables in the See also:market-See also:place and in the open See also:street. Brass() is the most populous town of Transylvania, and its population is composed in about equal See also:numbers of Germans, Magyars and Rumanians. The town, especially on market days, presents an animated and picturesque aspect. Here are seen Germans, See also:Szeklers, Magyars, Rumanians, Armenians and See also:Gipsies, each of them wearing their distinctive See also:national See also:costume, and talking and bargaining in their own See also:special See also:idiom.
Amongst the places of See also:interest See also:round Brasso is the watering-place Zaizon, 15 M. to the east, with ferruginous and See also:iodine See also:waters; while about 17 M. to the See also:south-west lies the See also:pretty Rumanian See also:village of Zernest, where in 1690 the See also:Austrian See also:general Heussler was defeated and taken prisoner by Imre (Emerich) Tokoly, the usurper of the Transylvanian See also:throne.
Brasso was founded by the See also:Teutonic 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 in 1211, and soon became a flourishing town. Through the activity of Honterus it played a leading See also:part in the introduction of the See also:Reformation in Transylvania in the 16th century. The town was almost completely destroyed by the big fire of 1689. During the revolution of 1848—1849 it was besieged by the Hungarians under General See also:Bern from See also:March to See also:July 1849, and several engagements between the Austrian and the Hungarian troops took place in its neighbourhood.
End of Article: BRASEO (Ger. Kronstadt; Rumanian, Brasov)
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