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4 unusual facts about Pannonhalma


Diakovce

From that time, the area was the property of the abbey of Pannonhalma.

Pannonhalma

The Pannonhalma-Sokoró wine region consists of 630 hectares and the main white grape varieties grown here are Pinot gris, Chardonnay, Rhine and Italian Riesling, Királyleányka, and Traminer (Gewürztraminer).

Šaľa

The town was first mentioned in 1002 in a document of Pannonhalma abbey.

Władysław the White

Failing to win it, in the years 1375–1377 he reached and agreement with Louis, who paid him 10,000 florins (and granted him the rank of an abbot in the monastery in Pannonhalma) for the final abdication and rejection of all rights as a Duke and pretender to the crown.


Saint Maurus of Pécs

According to the Greater Legend of Saint Gerard, Maurus sent four monks from Pannonhalma to assist Gerard, the first bishop of Csanád (now Cenad, Romania) in organizing the new diocese.


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