KAPOSVR

town, seat of Somogy megye (county), southwestern Hungary. On hills flanking the upper valley of the Kapos River (which flows northeast to the Si), it is the chief market town of the county and has played an important role in Hungarian art and poetry. There are ruins of a castle taken three times by the Turks in the 16th and 17th centuries. The remodeled parish church dates from 1737 44, and the ruins of an 11th-century Benedictine monastery were excavated and restored in 1966. The area produces rye, potatoes, sugar beets, and tobacco. Kaposvr's industries include textiles, the manufacture of bricks and agricultural machinery, and sugar refining. It is on the trunk railway line from Budapest to Zagreb and Rijeka (Italian: Fiume) in Croatia. Pop. (1992 est.) 71,212.