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Encyclopedia Britannica



KOSZEG (Ger. Guns)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 919 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KOSZEG (Ger. Guns) , a town in the county of Vas, in
Hungary
 , 173 M. W. of Budapest by rail. Pop. (1900), 7422. It is pleasantly situated in the valley of the Guns, and is dominated towards the west by the peaks of Altenhaus (2000 ft.) and of the Geschriebene
Stein
  (2900 ft.). It possesses a castle of
Count
  Esterhazy, a modern Roman Catholic Church in
Gothic
  style and two convents. It has important cloth factories and a lively trade in fruit and wine. The town has a
special
  historical
interest
  for the heroic and successful defence of the fortress by Nicolas Jurisics against a large army of Sultan Soliman, in JulyAugust 1532, which frustrated the advance of the Turks to Vienna for that year.
To the
south
 -
east
  of
Koszeg
 , at the confluence of the Guns with the Raab, is situated the town of Sarvar (pop. 3158), formerly fortified, where in 1526 the first printing
press
  in
Hungary
  was established.


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