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Verecke’s Famous Mountain Pass
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that there is scarcely a Hungarian anywhere in the world whose heart does not beat a little faster at the mention of Verecke. Standing beside the monument to the Hungarian Conquest, designed by the sculptor Péter Matl (from Munkács), and gazing
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“Transylvania or the greater part thereof”
The Allied Powers and the Hungarian-Romanian Border (1940–1945)
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The Treaty of Várad, 1538
The peace treaty that tore the Kingdom of Hungary in two
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The Szatmár Compromise
A lost war, a won peace, 1711
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The Southern Defense System: Border Fortifications against the Ottomans in the Fifteenth Century
The Ottoman Empire, which emerged as a conquering power in Southeastern Europe in the latter half of the fourteenth century, fundamentally altered Hungary’s geopolitical situation.
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The Sixtus Affair: The Failed Attempt to End the First World War
Shakespeare wrote in his comedy Measure for Measure, “Heaven grant us its peace, but not the King of Hungary’s!” This notion proved poignantly true during the First World War. Of the various belligerents, the four years of the war saw the Austro-Hungarian monarchy make the most a
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The Martyrdom of Vilmos Apor
On Good Friday, March 30, 1945, the Roman Catholic prelate Vilmos Apor was shot three times by a burst from a Soviet soldier’s submachine gun. He received mortal injuries to which he succumbed after three days of suffering.
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The Kossuth Émigrés, 1849–1867
Of all the several waves of Hungarian political émigrés, the most significant group was undoubtedly that formed by those who departed abroad after the defeat of the 1848-49 War of Independence and named after their supreme political leader, Lajos Kossuth.
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The Iron Gate: A Submerged Past
“A mountain-chain, pierced through from base to summit – a gorge four miles in length, walled in by lofty precipices; between their dizzy heights the giant stream of the Old World, the Danube.
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The Great Breakthrough in Sports Policy
Klebelsberg, Minister of Sport
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The 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz: Interests and Compromises
The 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz was an extremely complex peace treaty whose negotiations involved all the leading European powers of the day. The peace marked a temporary end to the centuries-long struggle between the Ottoman Empire—already past the height of its power and increasin
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Sándor Petőfi the Politician: Without Idolatry, but with Respect
Rubicon.hu
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Life in a Border Fortress
Győr: A Fortified Town in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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László Papp: The Divine Southpaw
His life was a master class, a true original. It was a tough start, resisting those first temptations this side of twenty, then for a decade and more accepting the eternal price of perfection—complete self-denial, ever seeking the highest peaks, even when at the pinnacle of glory
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László and Lajos Tisza
The prime minister’s right-hand men
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János Hunyadi the Regent
Hunyadi's regency from June 1446–January 1453
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“It is painful that it had to be this way”: István Tisza and the First World War
István Tisza’s second term as Hungarian prime minister is most closely associated with the outbreak of the First World War and, subsequently, with the measures he adopted to ensure Hungary’s wartime endurance.
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Hungary must stay out: From hoped-for neutrality to forced entry into war
In the wake of the Munich Agreement of September 30, 1938, public opinion in both Europe and the world adjudged the political conflict within Europe to be a settled matter. And with German and Italian support, Hungary was subsequently able to implement some of its revisionist asp
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Gotta Have Fun!
High Society in the Interwar Period
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Ethnic Revision, Great Power Games, and National Expansion: The First Vienna Award and the Return of Upper Hungary
In a supplementary declaration to the Munich Agreement of September 1938, Hungarian territorial claims against Czechoslovakia based on the ethnic principle were recognized as legitimate by all four of the great powers – France, Great Britain, Italy, and Germany.