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Extract from the Sebes Travel Guides:
The town of
SEBES
grew up on the proceeds of the leather-working industry, trading mainly with Wallachia; as
Mhlbach
it was the capital of the
Unterwald
, the westernmost zone of Saxon settlement. In 1438 a Turkish army arrived, demanding that the town be surrendered. A number of inhabitants refused, barricading themselves in one of the towers of the
citadel
, which the Turks stormed and burned. The only survivor, a student aged 16, was then sold as a slave at Adrianople (now Edirne), but escaped twenty years later to write
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