Szegedin

Szegedin is a town of Hungary, on the right bank of the Theiss, 60 miles W. of Arad. It consists of the town proper, almost destroyed by flood in 1879; the fortress, approached by two bridges, having walls, ditches, and a garrison, a church and prison; the upper suburb, containing a church and a salt magazine; the lower suburb, containing a Franciscan monastery, church, and hospital; and the corn market, where are the town house, barracks, cloth and tobacco factories, etc. Some barge-building is carried on, and the chief productions are tobacco, salt, wood, wool, cotton, corn, and cattle.