Budapest
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- Names
Budapest
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- City has status of a county; communities of Buda (right bank) & Pest (left) developed at important crossing point of the Danube; both were Roman settlements; both were capitals of nation (Buda in 15th cen., Pest in 18th cen.); taken by Turks in 16th cen.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Britannica Book of the Year (1992); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1976); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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