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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 152 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NAGYKANIZSA , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Hungary, 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 Zala, 137 M. S.W. of See also:

BUDAPEST

Budapest by See also:

RAIL

rail. Pop. (1900) 23,255. It possesses distilleries and See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick-making factories, and has tradein cereals and See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle. Nagykanizsa once ranked as the second fortress of Hungary, and consequently played an important See also:

PART

part during the See also:

WARS

wars with the See also:

TURKS

Turks, who, having gained See also:

possession of it in Moo, held it until, in 1690, after a See also:

SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of two years, it was recovered by the See also:

AUSTRIAN

Austrian and Hungarian forces. In 1702 the fortifications were destroyed.

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