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Title: Hungary and its people: Magyarorzág és népei
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Felbermann, Louis
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Publisher: London, Griffith Farran
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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anlike manner, for close by stands achurch which he built in commemoration of hisvictory. In 1848 these fields were again thescene of great struggles. Passing several picturesque Wallachian ham-lets, we reach Fehérvár, a pretty mining town,containinof a fort built in the time of CharlesIII. Many Roman antiquities are preservedhere. There is also a church, which is a finespecimen of Gothic architecture of the fifteenthcentury, and in it several ruling princes ofTranssylvania lie buried. If its sacred walls hadmerely contained the tombs of such heroes asHunyady János and his son Ladislaus, it wouldbe sufficient reason for its being famous, butthey also hold the graves of Zsigmond Jánosand of Queen Isabella of Hungary. Over thegrave of Hunyady Janos there is a monumentrepresenting the great Hungarian hero holdinghis sword, the weignt of which was felt by manyMussulmans. This was stolen, and the thiefthought he would make friends of the com-mander of Gyor by taking it to him as a pre-
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A GROUP OK PEASANTS (VARIOUS NATIONALIl IKS). Page 204. The Mining Districts of Titanssylvania, 281 sent, but the commander, instead of thankinghim for the gift, had the thiefs arm cut off forhaving dared to lay hands on such a noblerelic, and cast the weapon into the river, inorder that no unworthy hand might touch it. Not far from Fehérvár are the plains ofKenyérmező, which conveys in Hungarian theappropriate title * Fields of Bread, for its soilproduces the best of corn. It was on thisground that the great hero Kinizsi defeatedthe Turks, and raised a huge column in com-memoration of his victory. Not far off is amound which covers the remains of the Turkswho fell on that memorable day. The Hun-garians evidently treat the bodies of theirenemies with great reverence, for a Christianchurch has been raised upon it. Abrudbanya. Now let us take a round in the mining dis-trict, where Abrudbanya will be found of specialinterest. Just as at Kecskemét you will see thepeople from the surr

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