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MAROONS

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 748 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
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
 . The old English form of the word is symaron (see Hawkins's Voyage, 68). The
term
  "Maroons" is applied almost as a proper name to the descendants of those negroes in Jamaica who at the first English occupation in the 17th century fled to the mountains.
(See JAMAICA.)
MAROS-VASARHELY, a town of
Hungary
  in Transylvania,
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
  style built about 1446, where in 1571 the diet was held which proclaimed the equality of the Unitarian Church with the Roman Catholic, the Lutheran, and Calvinistic Churches. The Teleki palace contains the Teleki collections, which include a library of 70,000 volumes and several valuable manuscripts (e.g. the Teleki Codex), a collection of old Hungarian poems, and a
manuscript
  of Tacitus, besides a collection of antiquities and another of minerals. Maros-Vasarhely has also an interesting Szekler industrial museum. The
trade
  is chiefly in timber,
grain
 , wine, tobacco, fruit and other products of the neighbour-hood. There are manufactures of
sugar
 , spirits and beer.


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