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SEGESVAR (Ger. Schdssburg)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 582 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEGESVAR (Ger. Schdssburg) , a See also:town of See also:Hungary, in Transylvania, the See also:capital of the See also:county of Nagy-KUullo, 126 m. S.E. of Koloszvar by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 10,857. Amongst the See also:principal buildings are a See also:Gothic See also:church of the 15th See also:century, the town and county See also:hall, a See also:German gymnasium with a See also:good collection of antiquities, and the municipal museum. In front of the county hall is a See also:bronze statue of the Hungarian poet See also:Alexander See also:Petofi (1823-1849), erected in 1897. Segesvb.r has a good woollen and See also:linen See also:trade, as well as exports of See also:wine and See also:fruit. Segesvar was founded by Saxon colonists at the end of the-See also:SEGOVIA 12th century; its Latin name was Castrum See also:Sex. Here, on the 31st of See also:July 1849, the Hungarian See also:army under See also:Bern was defeated by the overwhelming See also:numbers of the See also:Russian See also:General Luders. Petofi is generally believed to have met his end in this See also:battle.

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