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Passarowitz

or POSHARE- WATZ, a town of Serbia, 9 miles S. of the Danube and 40 S. E. of Belgrade.

Here was signed, July 21, 1718, the treaty between Venice and the emperor, on the one side, and the Porte on the other, by which a truce of 25 years was established, and the Banat of Temesvar, the W. portion of Wallachia and Serbia, Belgrade, and part of Bosnia were secured to Austria. Pop. 4,000. It was occupied by the Germans in 1915.

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