a city of Hungary, in the province of Siebergen, the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 984 square miles, and contains about 60,000 inhabitants. The city is situated on the river Eiden, and is surrounded with double walls and extensive suburbs. It contains four Lutheran, three Catholic, one Reformed, and one Greek church, and is the seat of a Greek bishop, of a Lutheran lyceum with ten professors and a good library, of a Catholic orphan-house with 500 pupils, and a gymnasium or high school attached to it, and of the palaces of several of the nobles of the province. It has 2000 houses and 16,450 inhabitants. There are carried on within the city the trades of cloth and blanket-weaving, hat-making, and other manufactures. Long. 24° 3' 53". E. Lat. 45° 47'. N.