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See also:SZEGED (Ger., Szegedin) , the See also:capital of the See also:county of Csongrad in See also:Hungary, 118 m. S.E. of See also:Budapest by See also:rail. Pop. (111900), 100,270. It is situated on both See also:banks of the See also:Theiss just below the confluence of the Maros, and contains the inner See also:town and four suburbs. It is the second town in Hungary as regards See also:population, and since the disastrous inundation of the Theiss on the See also:night of the rrth of See also:March 1879, which almost completely
destroyed it, Szeged has been rebuilt. It is now one of the handsomest towns of Hungary, and has several large squares,
broad avenues, boulevards and many palatial buildings. It has also been encircled with a strong See also:dam in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to protect it from floods. Among the See also:principal buildings are a Franciscan See also:convent, with a See also:rich library and an interesting collection of antiquities and ecclesiastical See also:objects; a Piarist and a Minorite convent; a handsome new town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall; and a natural See also:history and See also:historical museum to which is attached a public library. Szeged is the See also:chief seat of the manufacture of paprica, a See also:kind of
red See also:pepper largely used in Hungary, and of a pastry called tarhonya; and has factories of See also:soap, See also:leather, boots, saw-See also:mills and distilleries. Szeged is the centre of the See also:commerce and See also:industry of the See also:great Hungarian Alfold, being an important railway junction and the principal See also:port on the Theirs.
Since the 15th See also:century Szeged has been one of the most prominent cities in Hungary. From 154r till 1686 it was in See also:possession of the See also:Turks, who fortified it. It is also notorious for its many See also:witchcraft trials. In 1848 it sent strong detachments to the See also:national Hungarian See also:army. In See also:July 1849 the seat of the See also:government was transferred hither for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time.
End of Article: SZEGED (Ger., Szegedin)
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