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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 748 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAROONS . A negre marron is defined by See also:

Littre as a fugitive slave who betakes himself to the See also:woods; a similar See also:definition of cimarron (apparently from cima, a See also:mountain See also:top) is given in the See also:Dictionary of the See also:Spanish See also:Academy. The old See also:English See also:form of the word is symaron (see See also:Hawkins's Voyage, § 68). The See also:term "Maroons" is applied almost as a proper name to the descendants of those negroes in See also:Jamaica who at the first English occupation in the 17th See also:century fled to the mountains. (See JAMAICA.) MAROS-VASARHELY, a See also:town of See also:Hungary in Transylvania, See also:capital of the See also:county of Maros-Torda, 79 M. E. of See also:Kolozsvar by See also:rail. Pop. (1900), 19,522. It is situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the Maros, and is a well-built town, once the capital of the territory of the See also:Szeklers. On a See also:hill dominating the town stands the old fortress, which contains a beautiful See also:church in See also:Gothic See also:style built about 1446, where in 1571 the See also:diet was held which proclaimed the equality of the Unitarian Church with the See also:Roman See also:Catholic, the Lutheran, and Calvinistic Churches. The Teleki See also:palace contains the Teleki collections, which include a library of 70,000 volumes and several valuable See also:manuscripts (e.g. the Teleki Codex), a collection of old Hungarian poems, and a See also:manuscript of See also:Tacitus, besides a collection of antiquities and another of minerals. Maros-Vasarhely has also an interesting Szekler See also:industrial museum.

The See also:

trade is chiefly in See also:timber, See also:grain, See also:wine, See also:tobacco, See also:fruit and other products of the See also:neighbour-See also:hood. There are manufactures of See also:sugar, See also:spirits and See also:beer.

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