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25 unusual facts about Hungary


1903 World Figure Skating Championships

Carried out of the competition for the second time won the pairs competition sporting a pairs :Christina von Szabo / G. Euler (1st place) and brother and sister Mizzi Bohatsch / Otto Bohatsch (2nd place) both of Austria .

Academia Mihăileană

Due to the quality of the study programs and to the qualification of the professors (most of them had a PhD from Austrian or Hungarian universities and were members of various academic associations), the Western universities readily recognized the Academy's study certificates.

AHG Industry

The holding is formed by several companies active in Germany, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, People's Republic of China, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Iraq.

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.

Arnold Ipolyi

In 1863 he was made canon of Eger, and in 1869 director of the Central Ecclesiastical Seminary at Pest; in 1871 he became Bishop of Banská Bystrica, and Bishop of Oradea where he died on 2 December later that same year.

Chochołów, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

It became known as the place of Chochołów uprising of 1846 (Powstanie chochołowskie) against the rule of Austria-Hungary.

Crișul Negru River

The following towns and villages are situated along the river Crișul Negru, from source to mouth: Vaşcău (on Crișul Poienii), Ştei, Rieni, Drăgăneşti, Tărcaia, Beiuş, Şuncuiuş, Uileacu de Beiuș, Șoimi, Căpâlna, Tinca, Batăr, Avram Iancu, Zerind in Romania, and Sarkad in Hungary.

Demographics of Austria

Only three numerically significant traditional minority groups exist – 14,000 Carinthian Slovenes (according to the 2001 census – unofficial estimates of Slovene organisations put the number at 50,000) in Austrian Carinthia (south central Austria) and about 25,000 Croats and 20,000 Hungarians in Burgenland (on the Hungarian border).

Economy of Bács-Kiskun

The local government of Baja are encouraging the expansion of foreign capital by reducing local taxes.

Franz Benque

He received lessons of photography from C.C. Hersen before moving to the then Austrian city Trieste in 1864, where he opened a studio in partnership with the Italian watchmaker Guglielmo Sebastianutti (1825-1881), marrying Sebastianutti' stepdaughter, Isabella, in 1868.

Friends of a Democratic Cuba

Friends of a Democratic Cuba is a group formed in 2006 that is composed of representatives from six former Soviet-bloc nations – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

From California to My Heart

It is a euro house/electroclash album produced by DJ Tyson and released only in Hungary in late 2006.

Giovanni Punto

They premièred the work on 18 April 1800 at the Burgtheater and the following month the pair played the work again in Pest, Hungary (it was here that the critic commented "who is this Beethoven?...").

Hont, Hungary

Hont is a village in Nógrád County in Hungary.

Lake Öreg

The lake is situated in the middle of the town of Tata.

Ludwig von Flotow

Ludwig von Flotow, after 1919 known simply as Ludwig Flotow (17 November 1867 in Vienna - 6 April 1948 in Gmunden) was an Austro-Hungarian statesman.

Lujo Bezeredi

He was born in Nova, Hungary, but after the death of his parents he moved to Čakovec, Croatia, where he completed his schooling at the public school and teacher's training school.

Military of Austria-Hungary

Austria was prominent in the coalitions that tried to contain Napoleon but was defeated in 1800, again in 1805 when Napoleon occupied Vienna after the Battle of Austerlitz, and finally after the Battle of Wagram in 1809.

Mindig magasabbra

Mindig Magasabbra is the fourth studio album by Hungarian rock band Locomotiv GT, released in 1975.

MitOst

The culmination of the union year is an international MitOst festival that takes place annually in a new city (2003:Pécs/Hungary, 2004:Vilnius/Lithuania, 2005: Wrocław/Poland, 2006: Timișoara/Romania, 2007: Görlitz/Zgorzelec, Germany/Poland).

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Pielisensuu Church

Pielisensuu Church has formal links with three sister Lutheran churches — in Mäntsälä, Finland, since 1978; in Tata, Hungary, since the 1980s; and in Schwarzenbach an der Saale in Germany, since 2005.

Renzo de' Vidovich

In 1996 he re-founded Il Dalmata, published since 1865 and abolished by Austria-Hungary in 1916; he later published, in 1992, Dalmatia region of Europe, followed by I Dalmati per Trieste and L'albo d'Oro di nobili patrizi e nomi illustri nel Regno di Dalmazia ("Hall of honour of noble patricians and illustrious names in the Kingdom of Dalmatia.") He wrote numerous articles on Dalmatian press.

Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire

Provisional governments in Venice and Milan quickly expressed desire to be part of a united Italian state, a new Hungarian government in Pest announced its intentions to break away from the Empire and elect Ferdinand its King, and a Polish National Committee announced the same for the province of Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

Sten Anders Hjalmar Sjögren

studied in Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1883 and in 1885-89 was staff geologist at the Nobel company in Baku.


8×56mmR

The updated cartridge coincided with an update to the Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 rifle in which the barrel length was reduced and the chamber re-cut to accept the new cartridge, and was the cartridge chosen by Hungary for the 35M rifle as a replacement for the Mannlicher M1895.

Alexander Finta

His most notable book, Herdsboy of Hungary: The True Story of Mocskos, was written with Jeanette Eaton.

Anationalism

At the SAT congress in Nagykanizsa (Hungary) in 2001, the Anationalist Faction of SAT was reestablished as a result of renewed interest in anationalism and related subjects, which had evidenced itself previously, when an "anationalism" internet mailing list was founded.

András Kállay-Saunders

During his visit in Hungary he noticed a TV commercial urging talented singers to audition for the nations talent competition Megasztár.

Carabus hungaricus

The majority of its populations inhabit calcareous sandy grasslands from the Deliblat (Serbia: Deliblatska Peščara) throughout the Banat (Serbia, Romania) and sandy areas in Hungary along the Danube River all the way to Vienna (Austria) and South Moravia (Czech Republic).

Christiane Pilz

Pilz reached into the international stage in triathlon, when she placed twelfth at the 1999 ETU Triathlon European Championships in Funchal, Madeira, and in 2000, she claimed her first medal at the FISU World University Triathlon Championships in Tiszaujvaros, Hungary.

Christoffel Nortje

Professor Nortje has spoken extensively in Maxillofacial Radiology scientific meetings in Hungary, Italy, USA, Brazil, Abu Dhabi, Lebanon, Bangkok, Thailand, China, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

Constant Detré

Constant Detré (Szilárd Eduard Diettmann) was born in Budapest (then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) on 2 January 1891, and died 10 April 1945 in Garnat-sur-Engièvre a village of central France (département of Allier).

Croatian Latin literature

At the end of the 15th century, Primorsky was under Venetian rule, while northern Croatia (under Hungarian rule since the 12th century) came under Habsburg rule (with parts of Hungary) in 1526–1527 (where it remained until 1918).

Cuman language

They later had an important role in the history of Hungary, Rumania (see, for example, the Besarab dynasty), Moldavia and Bessarabia.

Edward Rydz-Śmigły

Śmigły-Rydz was transferred from the internment camp to the villa of a former Romanian prime minister in Dragoslavele, from where he escaped on 10 December 1940 and crossed illegally into Hungary.

European Nuclear Disarmament

The Czechoslovakia group exchanged views with and visited Havel and his colleagues in Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia; the Hungary group did the same with György Konrád, Miklos Haraszti and a small group of young peace activists in Hungary; the Poland group the same with Adam Michnik, Jacek Kuron and many younger activists; the East Germany group the same with Bärbel Bohley and others who were later to be the core of Neues Forum.

Football in Montenegro

The Montenegro national team played its first match in Podgorica on March 24, 2007, when they beat Hungary 2-1.

François-Xavier de Feller

In 1764 he was appointed to the professorship of theology at Tyrnau in Hungary, but in 1771 he returned to Belgium and continued to discharge his professorial duties at Liege till the suppression of the Jesuit Order in 1773.

František Fadrhonc

František Fadrhonc (December 18, 1914 – October 9, 1981) was a football manager, who was born in Nymburk, Austria-Hungary, present day Czech Republic.

Garden Egg chair

Peter Ghyczy (1940) left his motherland Hungary in 1956 because of the revolution and moved to West Germany.

Gisela Legath

A Jewish Hungarian György Krausz (born 1922, in Szombathely/Hungary) was 1945 a prisoner in a German work unit marching form Hungary to the Austrian-Hungary border forced to build the German "Südostwall" near the village Eberau in Burgenland.

György Budaházy

This rejects both the accession of Hungary to the European Union in 2004 as well as the Treaty of Trianon and calls for a Greater Hungary in the borders before 1920.

Herbert von Bismarck

On 21 June 1892 in Vienna he married Countess Marguerite Hoyos, a member of the originally Spanish magnate family of Hoyos from Hungary, who herself was half-English and a granddaughter of Robert Whitehead, the inventor of the torpedo.

Interoute

Interoute's offices: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, plus a Network Operations Centre in Sofia and a Customer Service Centre in Prague and Luleå.

Jakob Fugger

Despite having constant financial difficulties due to an extravagant lifestyle and many failed political projects his reign saw the kingdoms of Spain, Bohemia and Hungary gained for the House of Habsburg, not by waging war but through advantageous marriage arrangements which were funded with the help of Jakob Fugger.

Jews and the slave trade

The prohibition was repeated by subsequent councils - Fourth Council of Orléans (541), Paris (633), Fourth Council of Toledo (633), the Synod of Szabolcs (1092) extended the prohibition to Hungary, Ghent (1112), Narbonne (1227), Béziers (1246).

József Szabó de Szentmiklós

In later years he devoted himself largely to petrology, and published memoirs on the trachytes of Hungary and Transylvania; on a new method of determining the species of feldspars in rocks, depending on fusibility and flame-coloration; on the geology and petrology of the district of Schemnitz; and on Santorin Island.

Katharine Goodson

When her sister Ethel, who had stayed with her during much of her time in Vienna, went to Budapest to become the governess to the son of Count István Tisza, the Prime Minister of Hungary, Goodson went to stay with academic and parliamentarian William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington and his wife Lady Katrina Conway at their London house.

Komnenian restoration

With this victory the Kingdom of Hungary was made a vassal of the Empire and, according to noted Byzantine historian Paul Magdalino, Byzantine control over the Balkans was at its most effective point since Late Antiquity.

Ladislaus V of Hungary

Ladislaus the Posthumous (1440-1457), also known as Ladislaus of Bohemia and Hungary, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia; and Duke of Austria

Lajos Kű

Lajos Kü (born 5 July 1948 in Székesfehérvár, Fejér) was a Hungarian football midfielder, who played for Videoton, Ferencvárosi TC, Club Brugge K.V.(notably in the European Cup Final 1978 against Liverpool) and SC Eisenstadt.

László Rátgéber

László Rátgéber (born 11 October 1969 in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia (today in Serbia)) is the Hungarian head coach of the men's Hungary national basketball team.

Louis I of Hungary

The Renaissance style came directly from Italy during the Quattrocento to Hungary foremost in the Central European region.

Matteo Marchisano-Adamo

From 1991-1995 Marchisano-Adamo studied music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary with Ferenc Rados and Balázs Szokolay.

Nádasdy family

Of its many holdings, the family held the Nádasdy Castle in Sárvár, Hungary, the Csejte Castle, in Čachtice, Slovakia which is situated on a hill adjacent to a nature reserve, and the Nádasdy Mansion in Nádasdladány, Hungary.

Nădlac

A former part of the town lies across the border with Hungary; this village is called Nagylak.

National Independence Day

The autumn of 1918 marked the end of World War I and the defeat of all three occupiers – Russia was plunged into the confusion of revolution and civil war, the Austria-Hungary fell apart and went into decline and the German Reich bowed to pressure from the forces of the Entente.

Occupation of Hungary by Nazi Germany

Operation Margarethe, the occupation of Hungary by German forces on 19 March 1944

Orvosi Hetilap

However, it was only the second medical journal in Hungary: the first was the Orvosi Tár (English: Medical Cabinet), established in 1831 by Pál Bugát, which stopped publication by the end of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Øyvin Thon

He is also five times Relay champion, as a member of the Norwegian winning teams in 1981 (Thun, Switzerland), 1983 (Zalaegerszeg, Hungary), 1985 (Bendigo, Australia), 1987 (Gérardmer, France) and 1989 (Skaraborg, Sweden).

Peter Glassen

Born in Szeged, Hungary (then the Austro-Hungarian Empire) on October 19, 1920, Glassen emigrated with his parents to Toronto, Canada in 1929, residing on Gladstone Avenue in the city's west end.

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).

Pierre-Octave Ferroud

He died in 1936, when he was decapitated in a road accident in Debrecen, in Hungary.

Raba

Rába, a river in Austria and Hungary, tributary of the Danube

Sándor Egervári

Mikael Forssell equalized the result in the 88th minute, but Hungary still could win the match by a late goal by Balázs Dzsudzsák in the 94th minute.

Semic Interprint

In 1999 the company introduced the first manga published in Hungary, namely Dragon Ball, Video Girl Ai and Sailor Moon.

Steven Karidoyanes

:"Café Neon owes its form and existence to the 20th century Hungarian composer, Zoltán Kodály. When I first conducted Kodály's Galánta Dances I was immediately taken by the music's passion and color and wished there was a Greek equivalent which would gratify my Hellenic heritage. Café Neon now fills that personal void."

Táncház

In addition, ethnic Hungarians outside of Hungary, such as those in Transylvania, Slovakia, and the Siret River valley of Moldavia, are also celebrated by the táncház movement.

Tărcaia

After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, it became part of the Kingdom of Hungary within Austria-Hungary up until the Romanian army arrived in the village between regrettable circumstances.

Theodor von Strattman

In that role he arranged the marriage of Leopold's daughter Maria Antonia of Austria to Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in 1685, and settled the dispute between Lorraine and Hungary.

Thomas Bender

Bender was also named in the squad for 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification Group 3 matches against Italy and Hungary.

Wenceslaus III

Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289–1306), King of Hungary (1301–05), King of Bohemia and of Poland (1305–06)

Zsuzsanna Budapest

In 1956, when the Hungarian Revolution broke out, she left Hungary as a political refugee.