Church of St. Nicholas, Szeged Church of St. Nicholas, Szeged The Church of St. Nicholas (known locally as the Serbian Orthodox Church; ), is a Serbian Orthodox church in Szeged, Hungary. Many Serbs moved to Szeged in the centuries after the Battle of Kosovo. After the restoration of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć in 1557, Szeged became the county town of the Eparchy of Bačka. A wooden Serbian church was built in the city at the beginning of the 16th century, but was destroyed by fire when the Turkish army was expelled. After the liberation of Szeged from the Ottoman Empire in 1686, Serbs moved
Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier Île Royale, Louisiana, Illinois, Upper Country and Canada. The inhabitants could be separated in two categories, the Indigenous people and the European settlers. During the office of Saint-Vallier the immigration from France was mostly over; the European colons were farmers, fishermen, sailors, merchants and ‘coureurs des bois’ overseen by a small elite of aristocratic leaders and parishes’ priests, but a great demographic explosion occurred between 1685 and 1730, the white population in New France jumping from c. 12 000 inhabitants to c. 41 500. The Amerindian tribes constituted the second half of the population, by far the most numerous. But