Home1842 Edition

BANSKA

Volume 4 · 69 words · 1842 Edition

a city in the circle of Hither Danube, in Hungary. It is the seat of a bishop, and of the civil and military rulers of the Comitat of the Gran. There is a Catholic and a Lutheran ecclesiastical seminary established here. The inhabitants amount to 10,619, and are employed in making various metallic goods, and in the fabrication of arms. Long. 19. 3. 40. E. Lat. 48. 45. N.