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23 unusual facts about Buda


Abdurrahman Abdi Arnavut

He took over the military leadership of Buda in 1682 and became the governor of Turkish-occupied Hungary in 1684.

Aleksandar Bačko

Aleksandar Bačko is descendent of Nikanor Grujić, Orthodox Bishop of Pakrac and locum tenens Serbian Patriarch, by his brother Dragutin Grujić, archpriest of Mohacs, parish priest of Kacsfalu and assessor of Buda bishopric consistory.

Alexander of Courland

On 26 July 1686, he was mortally wounded in the second siege of Buda during the Ottoman wars and died shortly afterwards near Vienna.

Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria

Elisabeth Franziska Maria, Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Hungary and Bohemia (17 January 1831, Buda, Hungary – 14 February 1903, Albertina, Austria-Hungary).

Elisabeth of Austria was born in Ofen (Buda), Hungary, the daughter of Palatine Joseph of Hungary (1776–1847) and his third wife Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (1797–1855).

Arsenije III Čarnojević

Driven by further Turkish advance, they fled upstream the Danube all the way to Buda and Szentendre.

Augustinus Olomucensis

In 1496 he became secretary at the chancellery of Vladislaus II in Buda.

Bolko III of Strzelce

Bolko III spent much of his time at the courts of King Charles in Prague and King Louis I in Buda.

Buda Engine Co.

Buda Engine was founded in 1881 by George Chalender in Buda, Illinois to make equipment for railways.

Buda, Nebraska

This time, according to local tradition, it "was called Buda after an old religious center," but more probably either directly or indirectly after Buda, a part of Budapest, Hungary.

Buda, Texas

Others suggest that like the town of Buda, Illinois, the town name is a nod to the exiles of the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1848 who settled in the area.

Budapest-Déli Railway Terminal

Located in the 1st District (Várkerület) of Budapest, the station is located in Buda, and primarily serves towns and cities in Transdanubia.

Gavrilo Vitković

Gavrilo Vitković (Buda, Austrian Empire 28 January 1829 – 25 July 1902 Negotin, Kingdom of Serbia) was an engineer, historian, professor and collector of old manuscripts.

Gligorije Trlajić

Gligorije Trlajić was educated in Segedin, Buda, and Pesth, and studied law at the University of Vienna before he entered the bureaucracy in the department of justice in which he rose rapidly to be assistant to the solicitor-general in Vienna.

Hármashatárhegy

Its name comes from the fact that the borders of 3 cities (Buda, Óbuda, Pesthidegkút) met at this point in the 19th century.

Hypereides

It is said that a manuscript of most of the speeches survived as late as the 15th century in the library of Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, but was later destroyed after the capture of Buda by the Turks in the 16th century.

József Lénárd Wéber

From his children's birth records it is established he moved to Buda sometime before 1753.

Károly Bebo

Toward his last years from 1771 he created the memorable stucco sculptures to represent The Presentation of Mary in the Temple on the altar of St. Anne's church in Buda.

Lamoni, Iowa

In 1851 refugees from the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 sought to settle the area and form the community of New Buda (named for a neighborhood of Budapest).

Ruralia Hungarica

This was Dohnányi's contribution to the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the city of Budapest from a merger of Buda and Pest.

Soulcalibur Legends

He was born in Buda who lived with his sister Ilona until the usurper sultan, Barbaros, attacked the city and destroyed it, though his sister allowed him to escape with his life by sacrificing herself.

Star and crescent

14th-century Muslim flags with an upward-pointing crescent in a monocolour field included the flags of Gabes, Tlemcen (Tilimsi), Damas and Lucania, Cairo, Mahdia, Tunis and Buda.

The 13 Martyrs of Arad

By May 1849, the Hungarians controlled all of the country except Buda, which they won after a three-week bloody siege.


Aaron ben Joseph of Buda

Aaron ben Joseph of Buda was a Judæo-German poet of the seventeenth century, who was captured in the city of Buda, the capital of Hungary, on September 2, 1686, when the imperial troops, under the command of Duke Charles of Lorraine, finally wrested it from the power of the Turks.

Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz

Appointed to the chief command against the Hungarian revolutionaries under Lajos Kossuth, he gained some early successes and reoccupied Buda and Pest (January 1849), but by his slowness in pursuit he allowed the enemy to rally in superior numbers and to prevent an effective concentration of the Austrian forces.

Árpád Bridge

Árpád Bridge or Árpád híd is a bridge in Budapest, Hungary, connecting northern Buda (Óbuda) and Pest across the Danube.

Attila Bernath

He received an invitation from several galleries and he was also a participant in some reconstructions of historic monuments including the Matthias Church on Buda's Castle Hill.

Batthyány tér

The historic Fő utca (Main Street) crosses the square, and connects the lower end of the Budapest Castle Hill Funicular to the Buda end of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge.

Crescent

These include: the flags of the kings of Damascus and Lucha (yellow with a white crescent); Cairo (white with a blue crescent); Mahdia in Tunisia (white with a purple crescent); Tunis (white with a black crescent); and Buda (white with a red crescent).

Georg Jarno

Georg Jarno (3 June 1868 in Buda – 25 May 1920 in Breslau) was a Hungarian composer, mainly of operettas.

Goldsborough Hall

The story goes that Robert Byerley captured a fine brown horse at the Battle of Buda, the Byerley Turk, which is the eldest founding father to all thoroughbred horses.

Hungary in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013

The three heats, two semifinals and final were hosted by Gábor Gundel-Takács and Éva Novodomszky, with Márton Buda conducting backstage interviews.

KROX

KROX-FM, a radio station (101.5 FM) licensed to Buda, Texas, United States

La taberna del Buda

La taberna del Buda (The Buddha's Heaven) is the Spanish band Café Quijano's 3rd album.

Liat Cohen

In 2007, Buda Music released the album Variations Ladino, with music from 15th century Spain to the present day, comprising solo and chamber pieces based on the Ladino tradition.

Like Life

There have been four character light novels based on the game written by Japanese author Jōji Kamio, with illustrations by Hirokō Buda and Araiguma, published by Softgarage.

Mari Jászai

By 1867 she already acted on stages of Buda, and from 1868, in the theatre of Cluj-Napoca.

Mihály Imreffy

During the Hungarian Civil War (1526–1538) he joined to the league of Ferdinand I who appointed him castellan of Buda, together with Tamás Nádasdy.

Miklós Wesselényi

After serving 2 months in the casemates of the Buda castle, he started to suffer from a serious eye ailment, and he was permitted to travel to Gräfenberg (Lázně Jeseník), in Moravia with his family in order to cure his illness.

Orange Pocket

There have been three adult character light novels based on the game written by Jōji Kamio and illustrated by Hirokō Buda, published by Softgarage.

Petőfi Bridge

Petőfi híd or Petőfi Bridge (named after Sándor Petőfi, old name is Horthy Miklós Bridge, named after governor Miklós Horthy) is a bridge in Budapest, connecting Pest and Buda across the Danube.

Weinek

Ladislaus Weinek (1848, Buda - 1913, Prague), a Hungarian Austro-Hungarian astronomer