BUDA-PESTH

BUDA-PESTH
   (506), a twin city, the capital of Hungary, on the Danube; Buda (Ger. Ofen) on the right bank and Pesth on the left, the two cities being connected by a suspension bridge, the former on a rocky elevation and the latter on level ground; a great commercial centre.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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