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fortress to fall into the hands of the Austrians in 1849, raises its walls at the 

 confluence of the Vag with the Danube. Opposite to it is Szoinj (2,465 

 inhabitants), the ancient Bregetio, the residence of the Roman Emperors Valen- 

 tinian I. and II. Lower down is Esztergom (Gran, 8,780 inhabitants) , the birthplace 

 of the sainted King Stephen and the primatial city of Hungary, with a cathedral 

 built upon the summit of a hill. Then comes Vàcz (Waitzen, 12,894 inhabitants), 

 on the opposite bank of the Danube, which there sweeps round to the south. 



Szélces-Fejérvùr (Stuhlweissenburg, 22,683 inhabitants), the Alba Regia of 



Fig. 69. — View of the Sachsexstein, or Szaszko, near Schemnitz. 



mediaeval manuscripts, is the most famous town in South-western Hungary. 

 During a long period the Kings of Hungary were crowned and buried there. 

 Veszprém (12,002 inhabitants) is also frequently mentioned in the annals of 

 Hungary, but Papa (14,223 inhabitants), in the same comitat, to the north of the 

 Bakony Forest, exceeds it in population. Steinamniiger (Szombathely, 7,561 

 inhabitants), the Sabaria of the ancients, still boasts of a few Roman ruins, and 

 having become a great railway centre, promises once more to be of importance. 

 For the present Oedenhurg (21,108 inhabitants), a busy manufacturing town close 



