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LUGOS , the See also:

capital of the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county of Krass6-Szoreny, See also:

Hungary, 225 M. S.E. of See also:

BUDAPEST

Budapest by See also:

RAIL

rail. Pop. (1900) 16,126. It is situated on both See also:

banks of the See also:

RIVER

river Temes, which divides the See also:

TOWN

town in two quarters, the Rumanian on the right and the See also:

German on the See also:

LEFT

left See also:

BANK

bank. It is the seat of a See also:

Greek-See also:

UNITED

United (Rumanian) See also:

bishop. Lugos carries on an active See also:

trade in See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine, and has 'several important fairs, while the surrounding See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, which is mountainous and well-wooded, produces large quantities of grapes and plums. Lugos was once a strongly fortified See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place and of greater relative importance than at See also:

PRESENT

present. It was the last seat of the Hungarian revolutionary See also:

government (See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1849), and the last resort of See also:

Kossuth and several other leaders of the See also:

NATIONAL

national cause, previous to their See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape to See also:

TURKEY

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