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MODERN MODRA

Volume 15 · 73 words · 1860 Edition

or MADRA, a town of Hungary, county of Presburg, is situated at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, 16 miles N.N.E. of Presburg. The town is well built and walled, with three gates, adjoining each of which is a suburb. It has a Benedictine monastery and church; Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinistic, and Bohemian churches; and a governor's house and town-house. There are woollen manufactories; and some trade is carried on here. Pop. 6000.