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KASIMOV , a See also:

town of See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Ryazan, on the Oka See also:river, in 540 56' N. and 410 3' E., 75 M. E.N.E. of Ryazan. Pop. (1897), 13,545, of whom about l000 were See also:Tatars. It is famed for its tanneries and See also:leather goods, sheepskins and See also:post-See also:horse bells. Founded in 1152, it was formerly known as Meshcherski Gorodets. In the 15th See also:century it became the See also:capital of a Tatar khanate, subject to See also:Moscow, and so remained until 1667. The town possesses a See also:cathedral, and a See also:mosque supposed to have been built by Kasim, founder of the Tatar principality. Near the mosque stands a See also:mausoleum built by Shah-See also:Ali in 1555• Lying on the See also:direct road from See also:Astrakhan to Moscow and Nizhniy-See also:Novgorod, Kasiinov is a See also:place of some See also:trade, and has a large See also:annual See also:fair in See also:July. The waiters in the best hotels of St See also:Peters-See also:burg are mostly Kasimov Tatars. See Veliaminov-Zernov, The Kasimov Tsars (St See also:Petersburg, 1863-1866). ' KASSA (Germ.

Kaschau; See also:

Lat. Cassovia), the capital of the See also:county of Abauj-Torna, in See also:Hungary, 170 M. N.E. of See also:Budapest by See also:rail. Pop. (1900), 35,856. Kassa is one of the See also:oldest and handsomest towns of Hungary, and is pleasantly situated on the right See also:bank of the Hernad. It is surrounded on three sides by hills covered with forests and vineyards, and opens to the S.E. to-wards a See also:pretty valley watered by the Hernad and the Tarcza. Kassa consists of the inner town, which was the former old town surrounded with walls, and of three suburbs separated from it by a broad See also:glacis. The most remarkable See also:building, considered the grandest masterpiece of See also:architecture in Hungary, is the See also:Gothic cathedral of St See also:Elizabeth. Begun about 1270 by See also:Stephen V., it was continued (1342-1382) by See also:Queen Elizabeth, wife of See also:Charles I., and her son See also:Louis I., and finished about 1468, in the reign of See also:Matthias I. (See also:Corvinus). The interior was transformed in the 18th century to the See also:Renaissance See also:style, and the whole See also:church thoroughly restored in 1877-1896.

The church of St See also:

Michael and the Franciscan or See also:garrison church date from the 13th century. The royal See also:law See also:academy, founded in 1659, and sanctioned by See also:golden See also:bull of See also:King See also:Leopold I. in 166o, has an extensive library; there are also a museum, a See also:Roman See also:Catholic upper gymnasium and See also:seminary for priests, and other See also:schools and benevolent institutions. Kassa is the see of a Roman Catholic bishopric. It is the See also:chief See also:political and commercial town of Upper Hungary, and the See also:principal See also:entrepot for the See also:commerce between Hungary and See also:Galicia. Its most important manufactures are See also:tobacco, machinery, See also:iron, See also:furniture, textiles and milling. About 3 M. N.W. of the town are the See also:baths of See also:Banks, with alkaline and ferruginous springs, and about 12 m. N.E. lies R5.nk-Herlein, with an intermittent chalybeate See also:spring. About 20 m. W. of Kassa lies the famous Premonstratensian See also:abbey of Jasz6, founded in the 12th century. The abbey contains a See also:rich library and valuable archives. In the neighbourhood is a See also:fine stalactite grotto, which often served as a place of See also:refuge to the inhabitants in See also:war See also:time.

Kassa was created a town and granted See also:

special privileges by See also:Bela IV. in 1235, and was raised to the See also:rank of a royal See also:free town by Stephen V. in 1270. In 1290 it was surrounded with walls. The subsequent See also:history presents a See also:long See also:record of revolts, sieges and disastrous conflagrations. In 1430 the See also:plague carried off a See also:great number of the inhabitants. In 1458 the right of minting See also:money according to the See also:pattern and value of the Buda coinage was granted to the See also:municipality by King Matthias I. The bishopric was established in 1804. In the revolutionary war of 1848-49 the Hungarians were twice defeated before the walls of Kassa by the Austrians under See also:General Schlick, and the town was held successively by the Austrians, Hungarians and Russians.

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