{"topic":"tokaj","count":1,"articles":[{"id":"britannica-11-tokaj","work_id":"britannica-11","title":"Tokaj","normalized_title":"tokaj","slug":"tokaj","aliases":[],"subtitle":"Internet Archive OCR import","body_text":"TOKAJ (or TOKAY), a town of Hungary, in the county of emplen, 148 m. E.N.E. of Budapest by rail. Pop. (1900), 5104. it is situated at the confluence of the Bodrog with the Theiss, and gives its name to the famous Tokay wine. Toltaj lies at the 'oot of the Hegyalja Mountains, which stretch to the north and north-west of the town, between the rivers Hernad and Bodrog, 'or a distance of about 60 m. as far north as Eperjes. The northern part of the range is also called S6var Mountains. These mountains, which have in the northern part an altitude of 2700 ft., slope down towards the south-east near Tokaj in a hilly plateau of about 1500 ft. altitude, where the vineyard region is situated. This vineyard region covers an area of about 135 sq. m., and belongs to 21 adjoining communities. The soil is of volcanic origin (trachyte) . The principal places where the wine is produced are Tarczal, Talya, Mad, Liszka, Tokaj, Tolcsva, Sarospatak, Keresztur, and Zsadany. The yearly production averages 5,000,000 gallons. It is believed that the vine was introduced into this region by colonists from Italy and Morea in 1241.","body_html":"<p>TOKAJ (or TOKAY), a town of Hungary, in the county of emplen, 148 m. E.N.E. of Budapest by rail. Pop. (1900), 5104. it is situated at the confluence of the Bodrog with the Theiss, and gives its name to the famous Tokay wine. Toltaj lies at the &#x27;oot of the Hegyalja Mountains, which stretch to the north and north-west of the town, between the rivers Hernad and Bodrog, &#x27;or a distance of about 60 m. as far north as Eperjes. The northern part of the range is also called S6var Mountains. These mountains, which have in the northern part an altitude of 2700 ft., slope down towards the south-east near Tokaj in a hilly plateau of about 1500 ft. altitude, where the vineyard region is situated. This vineyard region covers an area of about 135 sq. m., and belongs to 21 adjoining communities. The soil is of volcanic origin (trachyte) . The principal places where the wine is produced are Tarczal, Talya, Mad, Liszka, Tokaj, Tolcsva, Sarospatak, Keresztur, and Zsadany. The yearly production averages 5,000,000 gallons. It is believed that the vine was introduced into this region by colonists from Italy and Morea in 1241.</p>","volume_id":"britannica-11-v26","page_range_label":"Vol. 26, pp. 1047-1047","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri26chisrich/page/n1100/mode/1up","text_source_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri26chisrich/encyclopaediabri26chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri26chisrich","quality_status":"ocr-imported-page-aligned","parser_version":"ia-djvu-xml-v1","page_refs":[{"page_number":"1047","label":"p. 1047","image_url":"/source-assets/scans/britannica-11/encyclopaediabri26chisrich/encyclopaediabri26chisrich_1101.jpg","source_image_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri26chisrich/encyclopaediabri26chisrich_jp2.zip/encyclopaediabri26chisrich_jp2%2Fencyclopaediabri26chisrich_1101.jp2&ext=jpg","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri26chisrich/page/n1100/mode/1up"}],"work":{"id":"britannica-11","slug":"britannica-11","title":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","short_title":"Britannica 11th","edition":"11th edition","publisher":"Cambridge University Press","publication_start_year":1910,"publication_end_year":1911,"language":"English","country":"United Kingdom / United States","copyright_status_note":"First published before 1931; treated as public domain in the United States. 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