Presburg, the ancient capital of Hungary, close to the Austrian frontier, on the Danube, by rail 40 m. E. of Vienna; is a pleasant town, with a cathedral, a town-house, and a Franciscan church, all of the 13th century, the old Parliament House, and a ruined royal castle; manufactures beer, dynamite, and starch, and trades largely in live stock and corn.
Population (circa 1900) given as 52,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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