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SEMENDRIA (Smederevo)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 616 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SEMENDRIA (Smederevo) , an important commercial town and
capital
  of the Smederevo department, Servia, on the Danube, between Belgrade and the Iron Gates. Pop. (1900) 6912. It is believed to stand on the site of the Roman
settlement
  Mons aurcus, and there is a tradition that its famous vineyardssupplying Budapest and Vienna with some of the finest table grapes--were planted by the Roman emperor Probus (A.D. 276-282). In the 15th century, when the Servian prince George Brankovich became lord of Tokay, in
Hungary
 , he planted vines from Semendria on his estates there; and from these came the famous white wine Tokay. At the eastern end of the town, close to the river, there is a picturesque triangular castle with twenty-four square towers, built by George Brankovich in 1430 on the model of the
Constantinople
  walls. Semendria was the residence of that Servian ruler and the
capital
  of Servia from 1430 to 1459. It is the seat of the
district
  prefecture and a tribunal, and has a garrison of
regular
  troops. Besides the
special
  export of grapes and white wine, a
great
 
part
  of the Servian export of pigs, and almost all the export of cereals, pass through Semendria. In 1886 the town was connected with the Belgrade-
Nish
  railway by a branch line.


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