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See also:SZEKESFEHERVAR (Ger., Stuhlweissenburg, See also:Lat., See also:Alba Regalis or Alba Regia) , a See also:town of See also:Hungary, See also:capital of the See also:county of See also:Fejer, 41 m. S.W. of See also:Budapest by See also:rail. Pop. (1900), 30,451. It is situated in a marshy See also:plain and is a well-built and prosperous town. Szekesfehervar is the seat of a See also:Roman See also:Catholic bishopric, one of the See also:oldest in the See also:country, and was formerly a town of See also:great importance, being the See also:coronation and See also:burial See also:place of the Hungarian See also:kings from the loth to the 16th See also:century. Amongst its See also:principal buildings are the See also:cathedral, the episcopal See also:palace, several convents, of which the most noteworthy is the Jesuit See also:convent, now a Cistercian secondary school with a handsome See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and the county 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. The town carries on a brisk See also:trade in See also:wine, See also:fruit and horses, and is one of the principal centres of See also:horse-breeding in Hungary. Szekesfehervar is one of the oldest towns of Hungary, in which St See also:Stephen, the first See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Hungary, built a church, which served as the coronation church for the Hungarian kings. In the same church some fifteen kings were buried. In 1543 it See also:fell into the hands of the See also:Turks, under whom it remained until 1686. Before evacuating it, the Turks plundered the tombs of the kings, destroyed the old church and several other buildings, and burnt the archives. Several sarcophagi of the kings, and the See also:foundations of the old church, have been found by excavation beneath the cathedral.
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