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Stephen was crowned king of Hungary by Abbot Astrik of Pannonhalma with a crown sent by Pope Sylvester II. With the coronation, the independent and Ch...
Legends about Saint Ladislaus had a great impact on all future generations. His actions were preserved on church murals and in the Chronicon Pictum. L...
Coloman the Learned banned witch burning by law. To be precise, he only banned the burning of one specific type of witch. His ruling describes: “No in...
An interesting choice of the designers of the statue is that they chose his not so successful crusade against the Holy Land rather than the release of...
Béla IV is often referred to as “the second founder of the state” because of his successful efforts to rebuild the devastated country after the Mongol...
In 1278, during the Battle of Marchfeld, Ladislaus IV and the Hungarian army aided Rudolf I of Germany against the Czechs. For Rudolf, the victory was...
Common belief is that during Louis the Great’s reign three seas washed Hungary’s shores. The truth is that in those decades, Hungaryreached a peak in ...
After capturing Constantinople, the opportunity to conquer Europe was at hand. This is why the Siege of Belgrade had so much significance not only for...
The relief under Matthias’s statue shows him with his scientists. For instance here we can find Andreas Hess, royal chronicler and creator of the firs...
The relief pays homage to the heroic defenders of the Castle of Eger, who achieved victory over the Ottomans at the Siege of Eger in 1552. There is a ...
On 11 September 1697, the allied Christian forces (Holy League) led by Prince Eugene of Savoy fought a decisive battle with the Ottoman forces, Sultan...
“Our life and blood for our king!” – this can be read below the relief, which recalls the famous scene from the national diet in Bratislava in 1741. B...
Even though Leopold was an emperor for only two years (1790-1792), the Hungarian feudal constitution was re-accepted during his reign. It was because ...
Francis Joseph became Emperor of Austria in 1848. However, his coronation as King of Hungary took place in 1867. Between the two dates, some well-know...
The Habsburg armies started persecuting protestants in Transylvania. Bocskai protested against General Basta’s acts, so the Habsburgs took legal actio...
Gabriel Bethlen’s reign is regarded as the golden period of Transylvania. The Prince had to preserve Transylvania’s independence in between the two ad...
The history of 17th and 18th century Hungary is accompanied with the Kuruc-Labanc opposition. The participants and the supporter...
Not long after the exile of his mother Ilona Zrínyi and stepfather Emeric Thököly, Francis II Rákóczi started planning an uprising with noblemen from ...
From 1832, Lajos Kossuth started to work as an editor at different papers like the Parliament Reports, Jurisdiction Reports, and Pesti Hírlap. He supp...