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MAROONS . A negre marron is defined by Littre as a fugitive slave who betakes himself to the woods; a similar definition of cimarron (apparently from cima, a mountain top) is given in the Dictionary of the Spanish Academy
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(See JAMAICA.) MAROS-VASARHELY, a town of Hungary
capital of the county of Maros-Torda, 79 M. E. of Kolozsvar by rail. Pop. (1900), 19,522. It is situated on the left bank of the Maros, and is a well-built town, once the capital of the territory of the Szeklers . On a hill dominating the town stands the old fortress, which contains a beautiful church in Gothic
manuscript
trade
grain , wine, tobacco, fruit and other products of the neighbour-hood. There are manufactures of sugar
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