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Volume 6 · 52 words · 1778 Edition

a town of Hungary, with a castle. It was taken by the Turks in 1552; by the imperials in 1688; and by the Turks again in 1691; who abandoned it in 1665, after having demolished the fortifications. It is seated on a mountain, in E. Lon. 21. 55. N. Lat. 36. 5.