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mures
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mus \Mus\, prop. n.; pl. Mures. [L., a mouse.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of small rodents, including the common mouse and rat.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of mure English)
Wikipedia
The Mureș (; , ; ; ; Serbian Cyrillic: Мориш; ; ) is a river in Eastern Europe. Its drainage basin covers an area of . It originates in the Hășmașu Mare Range in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, Romania, rising close to the headwaters of the Olt River, and joins the Tisza at Szeged in southeastern Hungary.
The Mureș River flows through the Romanian counties Harghita, Mureș, Alba, Hunedoara, Arad and Timiș, and the Hungarian county Csongrád. The largest cities on the Mureș/Maros are Târgu Mureș, Alba Iulia, Deva and Arad in Romania, and Szeged in Hungary.
The Mureș was known as the river Marisus in antiquity. It was also known in German as the Mieresch and Marosch owing to Transylvanian Saxon settlements and prior Austrian Habsburg rule. Salt used to be traded in medieval times on the river on large rafts.
The Hungarian reaches of the Mureș/Maros are long as the state border). Some 28.5 km² on the northern side of the river are protected as part of the Körös-Maros National Park. The Maros Floodplain Protected Area consists of gallery forests, floodplain meadows and 0.6 km² of forest reserve near Szeged.
The name Mureș may refer to:
- Mureș County in Romania
- Mureș (river) in Romania and Hungary (Maros)
- Mureş culture, a Bronze Age culture from Romania
Also, the following localities contain the name Mureș and lie on the banks of the river above.
- Târgu Mureș, the county capital of the Mureș County.
- Ocna Mureș, a town in Alba County, Romania.
Mûres is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
Usage examples of "mures".
The Orthodox Cathedral of Tirgu Mures, sitting at the top of the square, included a mural painting in which Jesus, dressed in the costume of a Romanian peasant, was being whipped by men dressed as Hungarian nobles and soldiers.
I arrived in Tirgu Mures in late April, a few weeks after gangs of Romanians and Hungarians had come from the outlying villages to rumble with knives and clubs in the Square of the Roses, leaving several persons dead and over 250 wounded.
In the feuds of Humes and Heatleys, Cunninghams, Montgomeries, Mures, Ogilvies, and Turnbulls, we find them inconspicuously involved, and apparently getting rather better than they gave.