UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED:INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH AND AMERCAN STUDIES AND PHILOSOPH
Hungary (in Hungarian, Magyarország), republic, in central Europe, bordered on the north by Slovakia; on the north-east by Ukraine; on the east by Romania; on the south by Serbia (part of the federation of Serbia and Montenegro), Croatia, and Slovenia; and on the west by Austria. The total area of Hungary is 93,030 sq km (35,919 sq mi).Hungary is somewhat oval in shape, with an extreme length from east to west of about 528 km (328 mi) and a maximum width from north to south of about 267 km (166 mi). The capital and largest city is Budapest.
Szeged, city in southern Hungary, in Csongrád County at the confluence of the Maros and the Tisza rivers. Szeged's industries produce chemicals, rubber, glass, furniture, and textiles, and carry on an extensive trade in paprika, wood, corn, and wool. It is the site of Attila József University (1872) and the Szeged University of Medicine (1872). The city was under Turkish rule from 1542 to 1686. It was partly destroyed by a flood in 1879 and later rebuilt. In 1919 the counter-revolutionary government of Admiral Miklós Horthy was formed here. Population (1994 estimate) 178,878.0