Kaposvár

Kaposvár

      city of county status and seat of Somogy megye (county), southwestern Hungary. On hills flanking the upper valley of the Kapos River (which flows northeast to the Sió), it is the chief market town of the county and has played an important role in Hungarian art and poetry. There are ruins of a castle taken three times by the Turks in the 16th and 17th centuries. The remodeled parish church dates from 1737– 44, and the ruins of an 11th-century Benedictine monastery were excavated and restored in 1966. The area produces rye, potatoes, sugar beets, and tobacco. The animal husbandry faculty of Pannonian University of Agricultural Sciences is based in Kaposvár. Kaposvár's industries include meat-packaging, textiles, the manufacture of bricks and agricultural machinery, and sugar refining. It is on the trunk railway line from Budapest to Zagreb and Rijeka (Italian: Fiume) in Croatia. Pop. (2001) 68,697.

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