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Old July 5th 09, 03:49 PM posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Default Hungarian query.

On Jul 4, 11:55*pm, "rodney" wrote:
Changing political boundaries often prevent
the digital cruise.
I have DEES and BARTFA on early Hungarian strikes,
but unable to find them on falling rain.
Anyone recognise them?
Dees may have been in Transylvania.



Could we see a scan please?



Dees, a town of Transylvania, on the Szamos, 37 miles NNE.
of Klausenburg by rail. Pop. 9191.
Title Chambers's Concise Gazetteer Of The World
Author David Patrick Publisher W. & R. Chambers, Ltd
Year: 1906

Klausenburg

Klausenburg (Hungarian - Kolozsvar; Romanian - Cluj), is
one of the chief cities in Transylvania, 95 miles by rail E.
by S. of Grosswardein. Here are a university (1872) and
a Unitarian College. Pop. 50,000 (1906).

Dees , or more properly Déés (Dej in Romanian)
is in Transylvania.
(Ref: Transylvania: Its Products and Its People,
Charles Boner, Publ. Longmans (London) 1865)
Pg 422-424

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...9C946196D 6CF
http://books.google.ca/books?id=1wkC...A422&lpg=PA422

In 1920 it was occupied by Romania.

Dej (in Hungarian Dés) is a city in Cluj County of Romania
(in the valley of Somes River in Transylvania).
The city had 37.745 inhabitants (17,0% Hungarians,
1992 census). The settlement was the town and the
capital of the Szolnok-Doboka (in Rumanian
Solnoc-Dobâca) County of Hungary to 1918/1920
(Rumanian occupation/Treaty of Trianon). 1920-1940
in Rumania - capital of Somes (in Hungarian Szamos)
County. 1940-1944 in Hungary (after the Decision
of Vienna II). The treaty of Paris reallocated it to
Romania.

The city is a birthplace of the Hungarian dictionary
writer and physician, Ferenc Pápai Páriz (1649-1716)

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