March 19, 2009

Sopron: Information from Answers.com

Sopron: Information from Answers.com: "Columbia Encyclopedia: Sopron
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Sopron (shô'prôn) , Ger. Ödenburg, city (1991 est. pop. 55,140), NW Hungary, near the Austrian border. It is a tourism and commercial center with fruit-preserving, sugar-refining, and cotton textile industries. Originally a Celtic settlement called Scarabantia, it became a military outpost under the Romans."

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