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Newest Review: ... where the rivers Tisza and Maros merge. As of 2001, there are 168,273 people residing in the city. Szeged is known as the home of paprika, a spice made from dried, powdered capsicum vegetables, Szeged is also famous for Szekelygulyas, a goulash made with pork, sauerkraut and sour cream.(Loving it!) Today the inner city of Szeged has beautiful buildings and wide avenues. This is mainly due to the great flood of 1879, which literally wiped away the whole town (only 265 of the 5723 houses remained and 165 people died). Szeged is an important university town and a popular tourist attraction., the famous Open Air Plays of Szeged (first... more

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Szeged: beautiful city, a must seen if you are in hungary (488 words)
by - written on 23/11/09 (Very useful, 11 readings)
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Whooo, I found Szeged on Dooyoo! I'm Hungarian and from a city 20 km away from Szeged but studied and own property there so know the city very well indeed. Due to the high number of sunshine hours annually, Szeged is often called City of Sunshine (a name she shares with another Hungarian city, Debrecen.) Szeged is the fourth largest city of Hungary, the regional centre of South_Eastern Hungary and the capital of the county of Csongrad.The name Szeged might come from an old Hungarian word for corner (szeg) because of the turn of the river Tisza there. Others say it derives from the Hungarian word sziget which means "island". Others still contend that ... Read the complete review

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