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11 unusual facts about Kingdom of Hungary


Austrian units of measurement

In 1756 the ruling Archduchess of Austria Maria Teresia ordered that, Vienna fathom as well the multiplications or fractions of it should be the state defined measures of length in Archduchy of Austria and Kingdom of Hungary.

Church of the Holy Mother of God, Donja Kamenica

These features, which hint at Hungarian or Transylvanian influences, are highly atypical for medieval Bulgarian church architecture.

George Alexander Kohut

George Alexander Kohut (February 11, 1874 – 1933) was an American writer and bibliographer; born in Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary.

Greater Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary before 1920, informally also known as "Greater Hungary" or "Historic Hungary".

Hans Habe

Habe was born as Janos Békessy in then capital of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Johann Kaspar Mertz

János Gáspár Mertz (Casparus Josephus Mertz) was born in Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary, now Bratislava (Slovakia).

Krennerite

Krennerite was discovered in 1878 in Sacaramb, Romania, and first described by the Hungarian mineralogist Joseph Krenner (1839–1920).

Préférence

For the Danube Swabians, a German-speaking minority in the former Kingdom of Hungary, a variant similar to West Balkans Préférence has been described.

Shakuntala

Károly Goldmark, the Hungarian composer (1830–1915) wrote the Sakuntala Overture Op.13 in (1865)

Táncház

Táncház draws on traditions from across the regions of the Kingdom of Hungary (most notably Transylvania), especially music and dance.

Zsolt Richly

Zsolt Richly (born March 23, 1941 in Sopron, Hungary) is a Hungarian animator who worked as a director in PannóniaFilm.


Academy of Mount St. Ursula

The nuns, who had arrived in St. Louis in 1848, had originally come from Ödenburg (now Sopron), in the Kingdom of Hungary, and Landshut, in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Alajos Stróbl

Born on 21 June 1856 at Červený Kút pri Kráľovej Lehote, a village near Liptovský Hrádok, Slovakia (at that time part of the Kingdom of Hungary), Strobl was a pupil of K. Zumbusch between 1876 and 1880.

Anna of Wallachia

Between 1365 and 1369, Vidin was occupied by the Kingdom of Hungary and the ruling family was held captive in the castle of Humnik (in Bosiljevo, today's Croatia), where they were forced to convert to Catholicism.

Bard

The legendary suicide of The Last Bard (c. 1283), was commemorated in the poem The Bards of Wales by the Hungarian poet János Arany in 1857, as a way of encoded resistance to the suppressive politics of his own time.

Bruno of Querfurt

While in Rome for Otto's imperial coronation, Bruno met Saint Adalbert of Prague, the first Apostle of the Prussians, killed a year later, which inspired Bruno to write a biography of St Adalbert when he reached the recently Christianized and consolidated Kingdom of Hungary himself.

Chindia Tower

Archaeological excavations conducted in the mid-20th century have revealed that the Chindia Tower dates from the second half of the 15th century, leading historians to propose that it is the "castle" referred to in the November 11, 1476 account of Hungarian nobleman Stephen V Báthory.

Cultural depictions of Edward I of England

The subjection of Wales and its people and their staunch resistance was commemorated in a poem, "The Bards of Wales", by the Hungarian poet János Arany in 1857 as a way of encoded resistance to the suppressive politics of Austria over Hungary after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Daniel of Galicia

He established cordial relations with the rulers of Kingdom of Poland and Kingdom of Hungary, and requested aid from Pope Innocent IV in the form of a crusade.

Demetrios I Kantakouzenos

George Palaiologos Kantakouzenos, "Sachatai" (d. circa 1456–59), scholar and military commander, defended Smederevo during a Hungarian attack in 1456

Eltz

In 1736 Archbishop Philipp Karl von Eltz had acquired the Lordship of Vukovar in eastern Slavonia (present-day Croatia) affiliated with the Hungarian nobility.

Frumoasa, Harghita

According to Balázs Orbán, it was founded during the reign of László I as a community of border guards for the defense of the Ghimeṣ pass, on the eastern border of the Kingdom of Hungary.

Glashütten bei Schlaining

Until the treaties of Trianon and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Szalónakhuta belonged to the Kőszeg subdivision of Vas district, Hungary.

Henrik Bródy

Educated in the public schools of his native town and at the rabbinical colleges of Tolcsva and Pressburg, Hungary, Brody also studied at the Hildesheimer Theological Seminary and at the University of Berlin, being an enthusiastic scholar of the Hebrew language and literature.

Hungarian Slovenes

In the 10th century, the western border of the Kingdom of Hungary was fixed on the river Mura, so the region between the Mura and the Rába rivers, known in Slovene as Slovenska krajina and in Hungarian as Vendvidék, inhabited by Slovenes, remained in Hungary.

Hungarians

The historical Latin term Natio Hungarica ("Hungarian nation") had a wider meaning, as it once referred to all nobles of the Kingdom of Hungary, irrespective of their ethnicity.

János Mattis-Teutsch

He was born in the Transylvanian city of Brassó (Braşov), then part of the Kingdom of Hungary within Austria-Hungary, now part of Romania.

John Alton

John Alton A.S.C. (October 5, 1901 – June 2, 1996), born Johann Altmann, in Sopron/Ödenburg, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, was an American cinematographer.

József Konkolics

Konkolics was born in Mali Dolenci (today Dolenci, Prekmurje) in the Kingdom of Hungary, the son of Ádám Konkolics peasant and Mária Nemes.

Kingdom of Slavonia

The Kingdom of Slavonia was bounded on the west by Kingdom of Croatia to the west, Kingdom of Hungary on the north and the east and on the south by the Ottoman Empire.

Lajos Haynald

Stephan Franz Lajos (or Ludwig) Haynald (b. at Szécsény, 3 October 1816; d. at Kalocsa, 3 July 1891) was a Hungarian Archbishop of Kalocsa-Bács, naturalist, and Cardinal.

László Mednyánszky

Mednyánszky was born in Beckó, Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg Monarchy (today Beckov in Slovakia), to Eduard Mednyánszky and Maria Anna Mednyánszky, (née Szirmay) both from landowning families.

Lothar Franz von Schönborn

In 1726, Emperor Charles VI granted Palanok Castle with Mukacheve, Chynadiyovo and 200 villages in the Kingdom of Hungary (today part of the Ukraine) to Elector Lothar Franz who had not only elected and crowned him, but had remained one of his most influential political supporters within the Empire.

Magdolna Purgly

Magdolna Purgly de Jószáshely (born 10 June 1881 in Kürtös, Hungary; died 8 January 1959 in Estoril, Portugal) was the wife of Admiral Miklós Horthy.

Master of the treasury

When the royal properties were considerably reduced under King Andrew II of Hungary (1205-1235; see Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary) for details), the treasurer also became responsible for all royal income from royal régales (coinage, exchange of coins, precious metals management, mining monopoly, salt monopoly, customs duty), from the taxes of royal towns etc.

Matthias Faber

Faber joined the faculty of the Jesuit university in Tyrnau (which became the University of Budapest), then in the Kingdom of Hungary, now Trnava in Slovakia.

Mladenovo

Hungarian count Buky received an island Hagli, three kilometers south of present-day Mladenovo, from king Béla IV.

Nikola Jurišić

In 1532, Captain Nikola Jurišić defended the small border fort of Kőszeg (Kingdom of Hungary) with only 700-800 Croatian soldiers with no cannons and few guns, preventing the advance of the Turkish army of 120,000-140,000 toward Vienna.

Pentapolitana

Pentapolitana (or rarely Pentapolis) was a league of townsin the Middle Ages of the five most important Hungarian royal free cities (Latin: libera regiae civitas, Hungarian: szabad királyi város, German: Königliche Freistadt; Slovak: slobodné kráľovské mesto) of the Kingdom of Hungary; Kassa (today Košice), Bártfa (Bardejov), Lőcse (Levoča), Eperjes (Prešov), and Kisszeben (Sabinov) .

Perín-Chym

The village Perín gave name to the Lords of Perín (Perényi), a noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary, whose oldest known member Urban was granted the domain of Perín in 1292.

Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic

The step undertaken by Metropolitan Atanasie Anghel and his Holy Synod obtained for the ethnic Romanians of Transylvania (then a Principauté vasal to the Hapsburg Empire) equal rights with those of the other Transylvanian nations, which were part of the Unio Trium Nationum: (the Hungarian nobility, the Transylvanian Saxons and the Székely).

Șiria

In 1849, the village was part of the Kingdom of Hungary and it was a venue for the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas, including the Surrender at Világos: on 13 August 1849 the Hungarian army led by Artúr Görgey surrendered to the Russian general Rüdiger on the field below Șiria Castle, which brought an end to the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Spišská Kapitula and St. Martin's Cathedral

A recently restored wall-painting from 1317 depicts the coronation of Charles Robert of Anjou as the King of Hungary; another painting in the cathedral is the source for the provisional name of the anonymous Master of Kirchdrauf.

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.

Trimount

The trimount in the Hungarian (and probably Slovak) coat of arms represents three mountain ranges of the Kingdom of Hungary: the Tatra, Fatra, and Mátra.

Vasile Erdeli

Vasile Erdeli, also known as the Vasile Erdeli-Ardeleanu, was born on August 1, 1794, in Makó, Csanád County, Kingdom of Hungary, and died on March 17, 1862, in Oradea.

Vata pagan uprising

The Vata pagan uprising was a Hungarian rebellion which in 1046 brought about the overthrow of King Peter Urseolo, the martyrdom of St. Gellért and the reinstatement of the Árpád dynasty on the Hungarian throne.

Vrdnik

The tower's builder supposedly was Roman emperor Probus in 287 During the reign of the Kingdom of Hungary, a new fortress was built in the 14th century on its remains, of which only the today's tower remained.