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34 unusual facts about Budapest


Abdelmalek Sellal

Sellal worked as Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 1996 and was posted in Budapest as Ambassador to Hungary from 1996 to 1997.

Aurél Stromfeld

Aurél Stromfeld (September 19, 1878, Budapest – October 10, 1927) was a Hungarian general, commander-in-chief of the Hungarian Red Army during the Hungarian Soviet Republic.

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.

Budapest-Bamako

The team that performs the most outstanding charity work receives the Mother Teresa Charity Award.

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.

Budapest-Nyugati Railway Terminal

The station gave name to the immediately adjacent Nyugati tér (Western Square), a major intersection where Teréz körút (Theresia Boulevard), Szent István körút (Saint Stephen Boulevard), Váci út (Váci Avenue), and Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út (Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Avenue) converge.

Previously another station stood in its place, the end station of Hungary's first railway line, the PestVác line (constructed in 1846).

Dancing Diva

The music video for "A Wonder in Madrid" was misleadingly not filmed in Madrid, but in Budapest showing a very cute and frisky Jolin.

Ede Kallós

Born in Hódmezővásárhely, Kallós studied Budapest and Paris and his first major work was the statue of "Dávid".

Espresso con panna

Historically served in a demitasse cup, it is perhaps a more old fashioned drink than a latte or cappuccino, though still very popular, whichever name it receives, at Coffeehouses in Budapest and Vienna.

European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences

The EuCheMS Chemistry Congress is a biennial event, beginning in 2006 with the 1st conference in Budapest.

Frank Partos

Frank Partos (7 February 1901, Budapest - 23 December 1956, Los Angeles) an American screenwriter, of Hungarian Jewish origin, and an early executive committee member of the Screen Actors Guild, which he helped found.

George A. Gordon

Gordon became a career foreign service employee in 1920, and served at embassies in Paris, Budapest, Berlin, and Rio de Janeiro.

Göncöl Foundation

The Editorial and Publishing Office is located in Budapest, established in 1986.

Gottfried Schenker

In rapid succession, Gottfried Schenker founded branches in Budapest, Trieste, Prague, Belgrade, Sofia, Salonika, and Constantinople.

Gyula Bezerédi

Gyula Bezerédi (1858–1925) was a prolific Hungarian sculptor, best remembered in the United States for his 1906 statue of George Washington in Budapest.

Habitus: A Diaspora Journal

The journal's debut issue in the fall of 2006 was dedicated to Budapest.

Hugo Markus Ganz

This German newspaper had stationed him in Budapest in the Austro Hungarian Empire in the 1890s for which he had taken on the Austro Hungarian nationality.

Interactive Brokers

(IB) is a U.S. based online discount brokerage firm headquartered in Greenwich CT in the United States and with offices in Budapest, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Montreal, Mumbai, Shanghai, Saint Petersburg, Sydney, Tallinn, Tokyo, and Zug.

Joe Dial

Joe Dial (born 26 October 1962 in Marlow, Oklahoma) is a retired American pole vaulter, best known for winning the bronze medal at the 1989 World Indoor Championships in Budapest.

József Róna

The equestrian statue is standing on the Danube terrace, in a prominent position, high above Budapest.

Kleparów

The building was designed by Ivan Levinsky in the Moorish Revival architectural style and decorated with many Eastern and Jewish symbols, similar to many well-known synagogues in Budapest.

Lawrence Gellert

Lawrence Gellert, born September 14, 1898 in Budapest, Hungary, died 1979 (Gellert disappeared in 1979, his death date is unknown), was a music collector who in the 1920s and 1930s documented black protest traditions in the South of the United States.

Marcell Nemes

Marcell or Marczell Nemes (4 May 1866, Jánoshalma - 28 October 1930, Budapest) was a Hungarian financier, art collector and art dealer.

Maximilian Jaeger

Maximilian Jaeger (c1915-1999) was a Swiss Minister in Budapest from 1936 to 1944

Pajtás

Pajtás was a steam powered passenger ship manufactured in 1918, by Schlick-Nicholson shipyard in Budapest.

Pro Scientia Medal

The Pro Scientia Medal was established in 1988 by NSSC, National Scientific Student Council (in Hungarian OTDT, Országos Tudományos Diákköri Tanács), Budapest.

Samuil Micu-Klein

Apparently, his goal was to make the bishopric become a metropolis, so it would no longer belong to the Archdiocese of Esztergom.

Stranger Than Paradise

When she arrives, she discovers that the only flight to Europe left that day is to Budapest, which is where she originally came from.

Strike Back: Shadow Warfare

In March 2013, production moved to Budapest, Hungary to double as several Eastern European locations for the remainder of the series until filming concluded in June.

Szomszédok

The series was a soap opera, dealing with the lives of ordinary people, living and working in or around an average lakótelep (Gazdagréti microdistrict, a socialist housing estate with several thousand flats in Budapest, built in the 1980s).

Trio Lescano

The three girls were born in Gouda (Alexandra) and The Hague, of August Alexander Leschan, a Budapest-born contortionist, and Eva de Leeuw (1892-1985), a Dutch Jewish operetta singer.

U-48-class submarine

In September 1916, Cantiere Navale Triestino (CNT) received authorization to build two boats of the class, U-48 and U-49, with the proviso that the boats be built in Budapest with final assembly at the Pola Navy Yard.

Zoltan Grad

Zoltan Grad, also known as Zoltan Deak (May 24, 1904 in Budapest, Hungary – January 29, 2003 in the Bronx, New York) was the editor of Magyar Szo, a Hungarian-American weekly newspaper based in Manhattan, for 51 years.


1998 European Marathon Cup

The 1998 European Marathon Cup was the 6th edition of the European Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Budapest, Hungary, inside of the 1998 European Championships.

2019 World Aquatics Championships

Budapest was awarded the 2021 Championships in the same vote.

Andrássy út

In September 2011, Secretary of State for Culture Géza Szőcs officially announced plans to build a new structure along Andrássy út close to City Park and near the existing Budapest Museum of Fine Arts and Budapest Art Hall (Műcsarnok).

Aurél von Kelemen

In 1927 he was one of the founders of the first Hungarian Tungsram covered court at the Városliget.

Béla Szepes

Szepes studied at the University of Arts and Design in Budapest.

Berthold Weisz

Since 1883 he established the Hungarian preserve-factory and factories for brassware and cartridges in Budapest and Berlin, as well as textile manufactories in Waitzen, Banská Štiavnica, Kőszeg, and Ružomberok.

BHÉV

Branch of Budapest-Budafok HÉV - owned by BKVT: Budafok HÉV (today tram route 47), Törökbálint HÉV (mostly demolished, the remained line is tram no. 41, Nagytétény HÉV line (from Budafok to Budatétény and Nagytétény; converted to tram line 43 in 1963, later withdrawn).

Bogomil Bonev

Thanks to Bogomil Bonev all the 56 criteria of the “Budapest process” were then met and this made it possible for Bulgaria to be taken out of the negative Schengen visa list in accordance with the unanimous decision of the Ministers of Interior of the member states of the European Community.

Budapest Challenger

Stella Artois Clay Court Championships, a short-lived Challenger, also from Budapest, but different district

Charlotte Bach

In 1968, Hajdu adopted the new role of Dr. Charlotte Bach, a supposed former lecturer at Budapest's Eötvös Loránd University, whose actual alumni included the philosophers Michael and Karl Polanyi and the mathematician John von Neumann.

Combino Supra

On August 1, 2006 Budapest mayor Gábor Demszky ordered all six trams to be withdrawn from service until technical problems were cleared up.

Danube Express

The Express now operates more frequently from Budapest to Istanbul (via Transylvania with stops at Sighişoara, Braşov (for Bran Castle), Veliko Turnovo and Kazanlak.

Eleonore Schoenfeld

Her students have also become top prizewinners in competitions such as Geneva, the Casals Competition (Budapest), Tchaikovsky (Russia), Markneukirchen (Germany) and the Concert Artist Guild (U.S.).

Éva Farkas

1993. FISE, Ferencváros Cellar Exhibition
Csók István Gallery, Buda Castle Old Tower, Budapest
“Living Gobelin”, GödöllőGallery

Géza Koroknay

Born in Budapest in 1948, Koroknay graduated from the Academy of Drama and Film in 1972.

Given to the Rising

The artwork for the album, designed by Josh Graham, is a mixture of photos from Heroes Square in Budapest and drawings inspired by the place.

Gyula Breyer

He was buried in Bratislava and after exhumation in 1987, was reburied in the Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest.

Hermann Blau

The Augsburg-based company operated later on with Riedinger under the name the German Blau gas company which controlled factories in Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, Saint Petersburg, the United States, Canada and Cuba.

Hungarian Grand Prix

Held at the twisty Hungaroring in Mogyoród near Budapest, the race has been a mainstay of the racing calendar.

Institute of International Education

Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

International Law Enforcement Academy

Presently, there are five ILEAs located around the world: ILEA Budapest in Hungary, ILEA Bangkok in Thailand, ILEA Gaborone in Botswana, ILEA Roswell in New Mexico, USA, and ILEA San Salvador in El Salvador.

Ivan Padovec

Ivan Eugen Padovec (1800 – 1873), commonly known as Johann (Ivan) Padowetz (see the signature on the photo), born in the baroque town of Varaždin in Croatia (known for its festivals of baroque music) was a guitar virtuoso, who gave concerts in Zagreb, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Hamburg, London, in Poland, Russia etc.

Jenő Károly

Jenő Károly (15 January 1886 – 28 July 1926) was a Hungarian footballer and later manager born in Budapest, outside of his homeland he is particularly noted for being the first manager of Agnelli-era Juventus.

John Flournoy Montgomery

Montgomery was clearly expected to watch over the political intrigues not only in Budapest but, from his central location on the Danube, to monitor the goings-on in Hungary’s neighbors (Austria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia) and other countries in the region as well, including Bulgaria, Poland, Germany and Italy.

Jon Nakamatsu

During the summer of 2005, Nakamatsu toured with the San Jose Youth Symphony in Spain, performing the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, and in June 2007, he toured with the Peninsula Youth Orchestra to Budapest, Prague, and Teplice playing the same piece.

József Hampel

Editor-publisher of the professional journals Archaeologiai Értesítő on Budapest.

József Várszegi

Later he went to study on the University of Physical Education in Budapest.

Kathleen Butler-Hopkins

Butler-Hopkins has studied chamber music with Gilbert Kalish, Gunther Schuller, and members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Tokyo, and Budapest String Quartets, and received a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven with Lewis Lockwood at Harvard University.

Kenneth Woods

He has worked with many orchestras of international distinction including the National Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Wrexham Symphony Orchestra, and the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra.

László Mandur

He was member of the Budapest 3rd district presidium from 1994 to 1997, and from 1999 member of the Budapest party council.

Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst

Other museums and institutions bearing the name Ludwig are located in Bamberg, Basel, Budapest, Koblenz, Cologne, Oberhausen, Saarlouis, Beijing, St. Petersburg, Vienna and Havana.

Marc Belteky

Marc Belteky featured for the Melbourne Football Institute during the Puskás Suzuki Kupa (Under 17's) which was played during April 2013 in Budapest.

MÁV Class 242

In later years they were double-headed to haul the heavy Orient Express on the section from Budapest to Biharkeresztes.

Nikolai Novosjolov

Nikolai Novosjolov (born 9 June 1980) is an Estonian fencer, a two-time world champion in men's épée, winning gold at the 2010 World Championships in Paris and the 2013 World Championships in Budapest.

Petya Miladinova

She has played in "Thessaloniki conspirators," "In the Moon Room", "Confusion", "That's absurd," "The Importance of Being Earnest", etc. and participated in numerous theatrical performances of festival projects in countries of Europe such as Hungary (Budapest and Szeged), Georgia, Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Russia (Yaroslavl) Italy (Urbino and Rome), France (Avignon) and Romania (Iași).

Qatar Airways

The airline has launched 22 new destinations since 2010, with nine more destinations announced: Ankara, Aleppo, Bangalore, Barcelona, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hanoi, Montreal, Nice, Phuket, São Paulo, Shiraz, Kolkata, Medina, Oslo, Sofia, Stuttgart, Venice and Tokyo.

Rákóczi út

It starts at the Astoria, the intersection with Little Boulevard in the Downtown and runs to east between VII. and VIII. districts, crossing the Grand Boulevard until gets the Keleti Railway Station (the central inter-city and international railway terminal of Budapest).

Rózsa Hoffmann

She was awarded several prizes: "Eminent Pedagogue" (1992), Apáczai-Csere János Prize (1995), "For Budapest" Prize (1996), Trefort Ágoston Prize and Széchenyi Scholarship (2001).

Schnellzug

In 1861 the first express train ran from Vienna to Budapest, in 1862 express services began on the Vienna to Dresden line via Prague and in 1868 the first express ran from Vienna via Krakau and Lemberg to Bucharest.

Sremska Mitrovica prison

On August 7, 1992, an agreement was reached between Yugoslav Prime Minister Milan Panić and Croatian Prime Minister Franjo Gregurić in Budapest for a mass exchange of prisoners.

Stefan Kanchev

After leaving the National Academy of Arts shortly before graduation, Kanchev took part in exhibitions and biennales in Bulgaria and abroad over the next 22 years, including Belgrade, Budapest, Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Brno, Ljubljana and New York City.

Šumadija–Vojvodina dialect

During the Great Serb Migration from 1690, many speakers of the dialect were settled in the Budapest region.

Szalay

Pál Szalai or Pál Szalay (1915-1994), anglicized as Paul Sterling, a high-ranking member of the Budapest police office

Széchenyi István College for Advanced Studies

The college initiated its own project to help young Roma people in the village and hosted groups of children in Budapest.

Victor Merzhanov

He sat as a jury member in more than 40 international competitions including the Rachmaninov Competition (which he founded), the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the Bartók-Liszt Competition in Budapest, and international competitions in Montreal, Tokyo, Brussels and others.

William J. Porter

After a chance meeting with United States Minister to Hungary John Flournoy Montgomery, Montgomery invited Porter to come with him to Budapest as his private secretary in 1936.

Yonasan Steif

He journeyed on a special train bound for neutral Switzerland along with other prominent Jews including the Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum; the Debreciner Rov, Rabbi Moshe Stern; and Adolph Deutsch, head of the Budapest branch of Agudath Israel.