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ESSEG, ESSEGG

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 778 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ESSEG, ESSEGG or ESSEK (Hung. Esszek; Croatian Osjek), a royal See also:free See also:town, See also:municipality, and See also:capital of the See also:county of Virovitica (Verocze), in Croatia-Slavonia, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Drave, 9 M. W. of its confluence with the See also:Danube, and 185 m. S. of Buda-Pest by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 24,930; chiefly See also:Magyars and Croats, with a few Germans and See also:Jews. At Esseg the Drave is crossed by two See also:bridges, and below these it is navigable by small steamers. The upper town, with the fortress, is under military authority; the new town and the See also:lower town, which is the headquarters of See also:commerce, are under See also:civil authority. The only buildings of See also:note are the See also:Roman See also:Catholic and Orthodox churches, Franciscan and Capuchin monasteries, See also:synagogue, gymnasium, See also:modern school, See also:hospital, chamber of commerce, and See also:law-courts. Esseg has a thriving See also:trade in See also:grain, See also:fruit, live-stock, See also:plum-See also:brandy and See also:timber. Tanning, See also:silk-See also:weaving and See also:glass-blowing are also carried on. Esseg owes its origin to its fortress, which existed as See also:early as the See also:time of the See also:Romans under the name of Mursia; though the See also:present structure See also:dates only from 1720.

At the beginning of the Hungarian revolution of 1848 the town was held by the Hungarians, but on the 4th of See also:

February 1849 it was taken by the Austrians under See also:General See also:Baron Trebersberg.

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