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PETERWARDEIN (Hung. Petervarad, Serv. Petrovaradin)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 305 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PETERWARDEIN (Hung. Petervarad, Serv. Petrovaradin) , a royal free town and fortress of
Hungary
  in the county of Syrmia, Croatia-Slavonia; situated on a promontory formed by a loop of the
Danube
 , 62 m. N.W. of Belgrade by
rail
 . Pop. (1900), 5019. It is connected with Neusatz on the opposite hank by a
bridge
  of boats, a railway
bridge
  and a steam ferry. The fortifications consist of the upper fortress, on a lofty serpentine
rock
  rising abruptly from the plain on three sides, and of the
lower
  fortress at the northern base of the
rock
 . The two fortresses can accommodate a garrison of ro,000 men. In the lower fortress is the town, with a military
hospital
 
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, and an arsenal containing trophies captured from the Turks. Peterwardein, the " Gibraltar of
Hungary
 ," is believed to represent the Roman Acumincum, and received its present name from Peter the Hermit, who here in 1096 marshalled the levies of the first crusade. It was captured by the Turks in 1526 and retained by them for 16o years. In 1716 it witnessed a
signal
  defeat inflicted on the Turks by Prince
Eugene
 . During the revolutionary struggles of 184849 the fortress was held by the insurgents for a short time.


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