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unusual facts about Miskolc, Hungary



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.

Árpád Balázs

Árpád Balázs (born 1 October 1937 in Szentes, Hungary) is a classical music composer.

Beatrice of Hungary

Beatrice of Naples, the queen consort of both Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary from 1476–1490 and 1491–1502, respectively

Béla Juhász

Béla Juhász (20 April 1921 in Nagykáta – June 2002 in Budapest) was a Hungarian long-distance runner who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

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.

Counter Terrorism Centre

TEK headquarters is located at Zách street (close to Hungária Boulevard), Pál Maléter Barracks, Kőbánya, Budapest, Hungary.

CroisiEurope

In France, CroisiEurope sail on the Seine, the Rhône, the Saône, the Gironde, the Meuse, and the Rhine; in Italy, on the Po; in Spain, on the Guadalquivir; in Portugal, on the Guadiana and the Douro; in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, on the Rhine; in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, and Romania, on the Danube; and in Germany, on the Havel and the Oder.

David Gestetner

David Gestetner (March 20, 1854, Csorna, Hungary – March 8, 1939, London) was the inventor of the Gestetner stencil duplicator, the first piece of office equipment that allowed production of numerous copies of documents quickly and inexpensively.

Drava

The Drava flows through Innichen/San Candido in Italy, Lienz, Spittal an der Drau, Villach, and Ferlach in Austria, Dravograd, Vuzenica, Muta, Ruše, Maribor, Ptuj, and Ormož in Slovenia, Varaždin and Osijek in Croatia, and Barcs in Hungary, being navigable for about 90 km from Čađavica in Croatia to its outfall.

Erzsébet Gaál

Erzsébet Gaál is a native of Hungary currently living in Bloomington, Indiana, where she is an active professional harpist, Kodály pedagogue and a researcher in the field of physical wellness for musicians.

European Christian Political Movement

This platform had started in November 2002 when representatives of political parties from more than 15 countries decided to examine new chances for Christian politics in Europe on the conference "For a Christian Europe" at Lakitelek, Hungary.

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.

Gergő Lovrencsics

Gergő Lovrencsics (born 1 September 1988 in Szolnok) is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Lech Poznań.

Ilona Hubay

In 1960, she left Hungary for Germany, where she worked first as a librarian in the provincial library (Landesbibliothek) in Coburg, and then from 1962 to 1976 as a curator of the collection of incunabula in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.

Imre Nagy

During the time when the Communist leadership of Hungary would not permit his death to be commemorated, or permit access to his burial place, a cenotaph in his honour was erected in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Indirect election

Many republics with parliamentary systems elect their president indirectly (Germany, Italy, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, India, Israel).

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.

Ivan Fellegi

Born in Szeged, Hungary, Ivan Fellegi was in his third year of studying mathematics at the Eötvös Loránd University, when the Hungarian uprising was crushed in 1956.

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.

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.

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).

John B. Haberlen

Haberlen has participated as a jury member and auditor in major choral festivals worldwide, including the St. Petersburg Choral Festival, the World Choir in Cardiff, Wales; Marktoberdorf, Germany; Riva del Garda, Italy; Budapest, Hungary; Denmark and Sydney, Australia.

József Mindszenty

Mindszenty's life and battle against the Soviet domination of Hungary and communism were the subject of the 1950 film Guilty of Treason, which was, in part, based on his personal papers, and starred Charles Bickford as the cardinal.

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.

Katy Sexton

European Short Course in Debrecen, Hungary where she made two finals breaking the British senior record in the 50m backstroke in 27:99.

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.

Lament for the Destruction of Hungary by the Tartars

It was written in 1242, shortly after the invasion of Hungary by the Tartars of Batu Khan, by a monk in the retinue of King Béla IV.

Laurens Pannecoucke

Pannecoucke qualified for the men's K-2 1000 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by finishing fourth from the 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.

Leó Frankel

Leó Frankel (Léo Fränkel) (February 25, 1844, Újlak – March 29, 1896, Paris) was a Communist revolutionary of Hungarian and Jewish origin.

Louis I of Hungary

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

Marie Henrieta Chotek

Only a few days after the closure of the congress, on June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary's crownprince and his wife Sophie (Marie Henrieta's cousin) were Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Saraevo.

In 1910, at the Liegnitz (today Legnica in Silesia) congress, count Carl Friedrich von Pückler-Burghauss, mentioned the thee rosaria by stating: "Today chains of roses link Germany with France and Austria-Hungary".

Mariyka Pidhiryanka

After Austria-Hungary collapsed, Pidhiryanka remained in exile across the Carpathians from war-torn Galicia, where the West Ukrainian People's Republic was defeated by the Poles, who then fought off the Bolsheviks and annexed the territory.

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.

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.

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.

Sretno dijete

For example Darko Rundek is interviewed in Paris, France, Mirko Ilić in New York City in the United States, and there are also scenes shot on locations in the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary and other countries.

Starčevo site

The culture of Starčevo is connected with other cites from Balkan and middle Europe where they use the term Starčevo-Keres-Kris culture in Hungary and Romania cites to symbolize the union of three close culture: culture of Starčevo, culture of Kereska and culture of Kris all of them located on the region of today southeast Hungary, Serbia and Romania.

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.

USA Women's World University Games Team

The fourth game, against Hungary was closer, but led by Carol Blazejowski's 31 points, the USA won by ten points.

Villum Foundation

Beginning in 2006, it has donated a larger proportion of its grants to social and cultural projects outside Denmark, with a special focus on Hungary, Poland and other countries in Eastern and Central Europe.

Wenceslaus III

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


see also

Mindszent Church

The Mindszent Church (Mindszenti templom) is a Roman Catholic parish church in the centre of Miskolc, Hungary.