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MITROVICA (Hungarian, Mitrovicz; German, Mitrowitz)

MITROVICA (Hungarian, Mitrovicz; See also:
GERMAN
GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN
German, Mitrowitz) , a See also:

TOWN

town of Croatia-Slavonia, See also:

Hungary, situated on the See also:

RIVER

river See also:

SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

Save, in 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 Syrmia. Pop. (1900), 11,518. Mitrovica is on the railway from See also:

AGRAM (Hungarian Zagreb, Croatian Zagreb)

Agram, 170 M. W.N.W. to See also:

BELGRADE (Servian, Biograd or Beograd, i.e. " White Castle")

Belgrade, 38 m. E. by S. See also:

ROMAN

Roman remains have been discovered in its neighbourhood, and it occupies the site of Sirmium or Syrmium, the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

LOWER

Lower See also:

PANNONIA

Pannonia under Roman See also:

RULE

rule. The See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

Probus (232–282) was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and buried at Sirmium, where, according to some authorities, the emperor See also:

MARCUS

Marcus Aurelius (121–18o) also died; but this is uncertain. In 351, 357 and 358, ecclesiastical See also:

COUNCILS

councils of some importance met at Sirmium, which became an episcopal see about 305, and was See also:

UNITED

united with the See also:

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese of Bosnia in 1773. The city was sacked by the See also:

HUNS

Huns in 441, and by the See also:

TURKS

Turks, who destroyed all its See also:

ancient buildings, in 1396 and 1521.

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