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11 unusual facts about Szentendre


Arsenije III Čarnojević

Upon the advice of the proselyte fanatic Cardinal Leopold Kolonić, in 1701 the rights of Arsenije III as the Serb patriarch were limited to the newcomers living in the vicinity of Szentendre and he was reduced in rank to the "Metropolitan of Szentendre", a title which was never accepted by Serbs.

Driven by further Turkish advance, they fled upstream the Danube all the way to Buda and Szentendre.

BHÉV

The BHÉV connects Csepel (south), Ráckeve (far south), Gödöllő (northeast), and Szentendre (north) with various points of central Budapest.

BHÉV (Budapest Helyiérdekű Vasút), is a system of four commuter rails (Szentendre HÉV, Gödöllő HÉV, Csömör HÉV and Ráckeve HÉV) and rapid transit (Csepel HÉV and Békásmegyer HÉV (part of the Szentendre HÉV)) lines in and around Budapest, Hungary.

Gavril Stefanović Venclović

In 1690 he was a refugee from the Turkish army in Sentandrea, Hungary where he become a disciple of Kiprijan Račanin, who started a school for young monks, similar to the one in the municipality of Rača, near the river Drina, in Serbia.

Imre Ámos

In 1936, he was elected to be a member of the New Society of Artists, which entailed working in Szentendre during the summer months.

Jovan Ratković

He was one of the organisers of the Assembly of the Serb Diaspora and Motherland, held in Szentendre, Hungary, which rallied leaders of the Serbian diaspora and of the then opposition movement in Serbia.

Kiprijan Račanin

Kiprijan Račanin or Cyprian of Rača (Кипријан Рачанин; c. 1650–1730) was a Serbian writer and monk who founded a copyist school in Szentendre, just like the one he left behind in Serbia at the commencement of the Great Turkish War in 1689.

With Arsenije III Čarnojević he came to settle in Szentendre, where he began to make a name for himself as the dean of a scriptorium, a diligent copyists of manuscripts and books, and writer of the first Serbian primer called Bukvar (1717)

Lilla Bodor

International Biennial of Young Artists, ArtMill, Szentendre

Peter G. Gyarmati

Later he worked with networking reliability, security, in Vienna, and Stuttgart and also in Budapest for BSB, TCC and worked in Stanford University, Palo Alto, U.S. as a guest professor, and as emeritus returned to Szentendre, where he lives now.


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