Stuhlweissenburg (Hung. Székes Fehérvár, Lat. Alba Regia), a royal free town of Hungary, and seat of a bishop, lies in a swampy plain, 39 miles SW. of Budapest. Here from 1027 to 1527 the kings of Hungary were crowned and buried. The town was in the possession of the Turks almost continuously from 1543 to 1688. It is now greatly decayed, but has celebrated horse-fairs. Pop. 27,612.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 772–773
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