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unusual facts about Székely



Anton Zilzer

He was a pupil of Rauscher, Gregusz, and Székely at the national model school of design, and later studied at the Munich Academy under Raupp, Hackl, Seitz, and Herterich, completing his education at Berlin, Paris, and London.

Bățani

During second World War, on 26 September 1944, members of the irregular paramilitary Maniu Guard led by Gavril Olteanu massacred 13 Székely in Aita Seacă (Szárazajta) village.

Betnava Mansion

It passed through the hands of numerous owners, including the noble families of Herberstein, Khiessl, Auersperg, Ursini-Rosenberg, Szekely, Brandis in von der Dur.

Boroșneu Mare

Leţ village, which lies on the Dalnic River, had 650 people in 2002, of whom 557 were Székely.

Count of the Székelys

The Székely groups who had inhabited the valleys of the rivers Hortobágy and Sebes had moved eastward, across the river Olt by the 1220s.

Edmund Bordeaux Szekely

In 1939, Szekely married Brooklyn-born Deborah Shainman, whose mother was a past vice-president of the New York Vegetarian Society.

When University of Lund theologian Per Beskow investigated Szekely's claims in Strange Tales About Jesus, both the Vatican and the National Library of Vienna denied that the original manuscripts existed.

Hungarian Quartet

In their second, 1966, recording of the Beethoven cycle, it is stated that Székely plays the 'Michelangelo' Stradivarius (1718), Kuttner plays the 'Santa Theresa' Petrus Guarnerius (1704), Koromzay plays a 1766 instrument by M. Decanet, and Magyar has a cello by Alessandro Gagliano of 1706.

Madelon Szekely-Lulofs

In the 1940s Székely-Lulofs published some new books, but in the fifties she produced mainly translations into Dutch, from English by Pearl S. Buck and Margaret Campbell Barnes, but also from Hungarian (Zsolt Harsányi, Jolán Földes) and German.

Maros-Torda County

Maros-Torda county was formed in 1876 on the territory of the Székely settlement Marosszék and part of Torda region.

Merești

A 1500 m long cave was named after the geographer of the Székely Land Balázs Orbán.

Mikó Castle

It is named after Ferenc Mikó (1585–1635), who began building it a decade after becoming supreme captain of the Csíkszék (Ciuc), Gyergyószék (Gheorgheni) and Kászonszék (Caşin) Székely seats, later merged into Csík County.

Music of Transylvania

Inhabited by Romanians, Székely and other Hungarians, Germans, Serbs, Slovaks, Gypsies and others, Transylvania has long been a center for folk music from all of these different cultures.

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).

Siculeni

200 Székely were killed by Maria Theresa's Habsburg army as the local Székely Hungarians refused to join as recruits the newly organized borderguard regiments.

Torda-Aranyos County

Torda-Aranyos county was formed in 1876 on the territory of the Székely settlement Aranyosszék and part of the Torda region.

Tulgheș

The population flood from the Mureș corridor (Romanian and Székely) and from the Bistrița Valley took over the existing Romanian population in Tulgheș.


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