Kronstadt (Magyar Brassó), an important trading and iron-manufacturing town, and capital of a Hungarian county in the extreme south-east of Transylvania; it is 261 miles SE. of Pesth by rail, near the Carpathians, and 1850 feet above the sea. The pop. (30,739 in 1890) includes Saxons, Szekler, Magyars, Roumanians, Greeks, Armenians, and Gypsies.—For the Russian Kronstadt, see CRONSTADT.
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