Budapest
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Budapest. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the official of Pest and name of the united towns Buda, or Ofen, the one on the right, the other on the left, of the Danube, forming the capital of Hungary. Buda, is the smaller of the two, and on the W. bank of the river, consists the Lower Town, or Wasserstadt, at the of the hill, and several other districts. Among the chief buildings are the former royal castle and several palaces, the arsenal, town hall, Governand a very handsome ment offices, etc., Jewish synagogue. The mineral baths of the Bruck- Buda have long been famous, both been bad and Kaiserbad having porused by the Romans. Pest, or the E. bank tion of Budapest on the left or the inner of the river, is formed by , about town of Old Pest on the Danube of diswhich has grown a semi-circle tricts Leopoldstadt, Theresienstadt, as its capital. The Government fell Elisabethstadt, etc. The river is at this point somewhat wider than the Thames at London, and the broad quays of Pest extend along it for from 2 to 3 miles. Pest retains, on the whole, fewer signs of antiquity than many less venerable towns. Its fine frontage on the Danube is modern, and includes the new Houses of Parliament, the Academy, and other important buildings. The oldest church dates from 1500; the largest building is a huge pile used as barracks and arsenal. There is a well attended university, having, previous to the World War, over 7,500 students. There are also many other educational institutions, including technical college, high, grammar, a trade, and mercantile schools; and hospitals, and other charitable institutions. Its chief manufactures are flour, machinery, gold, silver, copper, and iron wares, chemicals, silk, leather, tobacco, etc. In recent years the city has become one of the flour milling centers of the world. A large trade is done in grain, wine, wool, cattle, etc. Budapest is strongly Magyar, and, as a factor in the national life, may almost be regarded as equivalent to the rest of Hungary. It was not until 1799 that the population of Pest began to out-distance that of Buda; but from that date its growth was very rapid and out of all proportion to the increase of Buda. In 1799 the joint THE GREAT BUDDHA OF YUN-KANG population of the two towns was little more than 50,000; since then it has grown very rapidly until now it is estimated at about 1,000,000. After the signing of the Austrian armistice, Hungary seceded from the Austrian Empire and established a republic with Budapest March 22, 1919, and was succeeded by a Soviet government under Bela Kun. A reign of terror ensued that was ended only when the Rumanians captured the city Aug. 3, 1919. (See AUSTRIA-HUN- GARY; WORLD WAR.)
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
boo'do-pest, the capital of Hungary and the second city of Austria-Hungary. It is situated on the Danube about 135 miles below Vienna. The city took its present name in 1873 from the union of Buda, lying on the west bank, and Pesth, on the east bank. Buda rests on cliffs; Pesth on a plain. The parts of the city are united by a fine suspension bridge , the last on the Danube. Quays second only to those of London extend along the Danube for three miles. Old Buda was a Roman outpost as early as 150 A. D. There are old fortifications, mosques, and monuments commemorative of centuries of contests with the Turks; but Budapest, like its name, is a modern city rising on the ruins of the past. Steam-boat landings, warehouses, railway stations, broad, busy streets, parliament houses, and departmental government buildings, a wide-awake university, an academy of sciences, hotels, and modern store buildings, indicate a thriving commercial and administrative city. The population in 1900 was 732,822, comparable with that of Glasgow. Budapest is noted for its electric works. Many of the devices connected with electric lighting , motors, and trolley lines were invented here. There are large manufactures of brass and copper wire, gold and silver plate, iron, wood, and machinery. It is one of the world's great grain markets, and rivals Minneapolis as a milling center. The roller process, a method of crushing grain between steel rollers instead of grinding between millstones, is a Hungarian invention. See Hungary ; Austria ; Danube 2026 Editor's Note: The bridges the entry admires were all blown up by the retreating Germans in 1945, and the city was wrecked in a siege. Budapest rose again — and rose again in another sense in 1956, when the Hungarian Revolution briefly threw off Soviet control before Russian tanks crushed it. Sixty pairs of iron shoes on the Danube bank now memorialize Jews shot into the river in 1944. (Ed: BR 2026-06-25)