(Hung. Nagy-Várad), a city of Hungary, capital of the county of Bihar, on the left bank of the Körös, 140 miles E.S.E. of Buda. It is strongly fortified, and is the seat of a bishop, and of the several civil and military boards of the county. Besides the town proper it comprises eight suburbs, or rather distinct villages. The chief public buildings are the cathedral and some of the churches. It has several monasteries and nunneries, an ecclesiastical seminary, gymnasiurn, national school, and orphan and other hospitals. It carries on a considerable trade in the products of the vicinity. In the neighbourhood are some hot mineral springs and valuable marble quarries. Pop. (1851) 21,221.