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Miskolc, with population of about 180,000 is the third largest city in Hungary, located in the north-east of the country, east of Bükk mountains.
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Kecskemét is a town in central Hungary and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun county, half way between Budapest and Szeged, almost equal distance from the two big rivers of the country, Danube and Tisza. The city is well known for its secessionist architecture, museums, and for being the birthplace of composer Zoltan Kodály.
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Debrecen is the "Capital city of the Great Hungarian Plain", and
the county seat and largest city of Hajdú-Bihar county in eastern
Hungary. It is the second largest city in the country with about
200,000 inhabitants and historically the most imporatant city in
Hungarian protestantism.
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Balaton (Plattensee in German) is major lake in Hungary and the
biggest lake in Central Europe.
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Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe. Member of
the European Union and the Schengen Border-less Europe Agreement.
The country offers many diverse destinations: relatively low
mountains in the north-west, the Great Plain in the east, lakes and
rivers of all sorts (including Balaton - the largest lake in
Central Europe), and many beautiful small villages and hidden gems
of cities. Top this off with Hungary's great accessibility in the
middle of Europe, a vivid culture and economy, and you get a
destination absolutely not worth missing if you're in the
region.
Budapest
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Vác is a city in Pest County, Hungary. It is located on the
eastern bank of the Danube near the magnificent Danube bend. Though
not visited nearly as much as either Szentendre or Visegrád it can
become a pleasant and enjoyable stop over between the two.
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Budapest is a huge city with several district articles
containing sightseeing, restaurant, nightlife and accommodation
listings — consider printing them all.
Budapest is the capital city of Hungary. With green filled parks
full of charming pleasures, museums that will inspire, and a
pulsating nightlife that is on par to its European counterparts,
Budapest is one of Europe's most delightful and enjoyable
cities.
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Balatonföldvár is a small town in Somogy county, Hungary. It is
situated on the south side of Lake Balaton, approximately 120 km
southwest from Budapest. It was settled relatively recently by
modern man (mid- to late 1800s), however, archeologists found
objects in the area dating back to the late Stone Age.
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Balatonfüred is a popular resort town in Veszprém county, in Hungary with a population of thirteen thousand, situated on the north shore of Lake Balaton. It is considered to be the capital of the Northern lake shore and it has significant yachting life. It is also a favorite location for coarse fishing, carp being the most common catch. The lake has been erroneously spoiled with eels and other non indigenous species which are by now on the decline. The temperature of the water is above 20 degrees Celsius from May to September. The quality of the water is excellent.
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A limes
elnevezés a Római Birodalom több ezer kilométeres, hegyeken
és völgyeken átívelő, folyók vonalát követő határvonalát
jelenti.
Lake Balaton, located in Hungary, is the largest lake in Central Europe[1], and one of the foremost regional tourist destinations. Due to Hungary being landlocked, it is often affectionately called the "Hungarian Sea". The Zala River provides the largest inflow of water to the lake, and the canalized Sió is the only outflow. With a surface area of 592 km² has a length of 77 km and a width ranging from 4 to 14 km. The lake's surface is 104 m above sea level, and its depth varies up to 12.2 m (mean depth is 3.2 m).
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Baja (IPA: ['bɒjɒ]) is a city in southern Hungary. It is the second largest city in Bács-Kiskun county after the county seat Kecskemét. The mayor is Dr. Zoltán Révfy, while the parliamentary delegate is Róbert Zsigó.
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Sopron (pronounced [ˈʃopron], approximately shop-ron); German: Ödenburg, Croatian: Šopron, Latin: Scarbantia) is a city in Hungary near the Austrian border.
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History
Ancient times-13th century
The area has been inhabited since ancient times. When the area that
is today Western Hungary was a province of the Roman Empire, a city
called Scarbantia stood here. Its forum was located where the main
square of Sopron is found today.
During the Migration Period Scarbantia was believed to be deserted
and by the time Hungarians arrived in the area, it was in ruins. In
the 9th–11th centuries Hungarians strengthened the old Roman city
walls and built a castle. The town received its Hungarian name at
this time from a castle steward named Suprun. In 1153 it was
mentioned as an important town.
In 1273 King Otakar II of Bohemia occupied the castle. Even though
he took the children of Sopron's nobility with him as hostages, the
city opened its gates when the armies of King Ladislaus IV of
Hungary arrived. The king awarded Sopron by elevating it to the
rank of free royal town.
16th-19th centuries
During the Ottoman occupation of Hungary the Ottoman Turks ravaged
the city in 1529 but did not occupy it. Many people from the
occupied areas fled to Sopron, and the city's importance grew.
In 1676 Sopron was destroyed by a fire. The modern-day city was
born in the next few decades, when beautiful Baroque buildings were
built in place of the old medieval ones. Sopron became seat of the
comitatus Sopron.
20th century-present
Following the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four western
Hungarian counties (Pressburg - Pozsony, Eisenburg - Vas, Ödenburg
- Sopron, Wieselburg - Moson) German parts were awarded to Austria
in the Treaties of St.Germain (1919) and Trianon (1920). After
local unrest, Sopron's status as part of Hungary (along with that
of the surrounding eight villages) was decided by a local
plebiscite held on December 14, 1921, with 65% voting for Hungary.
Since then Sopron has been called Civitas Fidelissima ("The Most
Loyal Town", Hungarian: A Leghűségesebb Város), and the anniversary
of the plebiscite is a city holiday. The other three (the fourth
county Pressburg - Pozsony remain in Czechoslovakia) western parts
of the awarded counties today form the Austrian federal state of
Burgenland.
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Sopron suffered greatly during World War II, as the Nazis and their
Hungarian allies transported to death camps and killed almost the
all Jewish citizens and some left-wing workers, and it was bombed
several times. The Soviet Red Army captured the city on April 1,
1945. On August 19, 1989, it was the site of the Pan-European
Picnic, a protest on the border between Austria and Hungary, which
was used by over 600 citizens of East Germany to escape from the
GDR to the West. As the first successful crossing of the border it
helped pave the way for the mass flight of East German citizens
that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.
During the Socialist era the government tried to turn Sopron into
an industrial city, but much of the medieval town center remains,
allowing the city to remain an attractive site for tourists.
Today, Sopron's economy immensely benefits from the European Union.
Having been a city close to nowhere, that is, to the Iron Curtain,
Sopron now has reestablished full trade relations to nearby
Austria. Furthermore, after being suppressed during the Cold War,
Sopron's German culture and heritage is now recognized again. As a
consequence in the city most street- and traffic-signs are written
in Hungarian and German.
Wine production
In 1910 Sopron had 33,932 inhabitants (51% German, 44.3% Hungarian,
4.7% other). Religions: 64.1% Roman Catholic, 27.8% Lutheran, 6.6%
Jewish, 1.2% Calvinist, 0.3% other. In 2001 the city had 56,125
inhabitants (92.8 % Hungarian, 3.5% German, 3.7% other). Religions:
69% Roman Catholic, 7% Lutheran, 3% Calvinist, 8.1% Atheist, 11.9%
no answer, 1% other.
Architecture
The architecture of the old section of town reflects its long
history; walls and foundations from the Roman Empire are still
common, together with a wealth of Medieval, Renaissance, and
Baroque structures, often artistically decorated, showing centuries
of stability and prosperity.
There is an old synagogue and other remains from the town's former
Jewish community, which was expelled in the 16th century.
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Sports
MFC Sopron was a football team based in Sopron.
Notable residents
* Dániel Berzsenyi, poet
* Franz Liszt, composer
* Béla Bartók, composer
* Franz Lehár, composer
* Gyula Fényi, astronomer
* Franz von Suppé, composer
* László Rátz, mathematics teacher
* Georg Trakl, poet
* Rogerius of Apulia, author
* Mihály Tóth, football player
* Géza Ankerl, sociologist
* David-Zvi Pinkas, signatory of the Israeli
declaration of independence
* Ludwig von Benedek, general
* Susie Babos, 2006 American collegiate singles
tennis championSusie Babos at Berkeley
* Kálmán Kánya, politician, diplomat, Foreign
Minister
* Mátyás Rákosi, politician
* József Szájer, politician
* István Hiller, politician
* Rokop József, freedom fighter
* Vilmos Radasics, BMX rider
Twin towns
Sopron is twinned with:
* Bad Wimpfen, Germany
* Italy Bolzano, Italy
* Austria Eisenstadt, Austria
* Kazuno, Japan
* Eilat, Israel
* Kempten im Allgäu, Germany
* Mediaş, Romania
* Rorschach, Switzerland
* Seinäjoki, Finland
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Eszterháza
Eszterháza is a palace built in Fertőd, Hungary by Prince Nikolaus
Esterházy. Sometimes called the "Hungarian Versailles," it is
Hungary's grandest Rococo monument.
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History
Construction of the palace probably began in 1762, when Prince
Nikolaus succeeded his brother Paul Anton. Before he became Prince,
Nikolaus was accustomed to spending much of his time at a hunting
lodge called Süttör, built in the same location around 1720 with a
design by Anton Erhard Matinelli. The hunting lodge was used as
nucleus around which Esterháza was built.
The first architect to work on the project was Johann Ferdinand
Mödlhammer, succeeded in 1765 by Melchior Hefele. While the palace
is often compared to Versailles, which the Prince had visited in
1767, H. C. Robbins Landon claims that a more direct influence can
be found in "Austrian prototypes, particularly Schönbrunn Castle in
Vienna."
The palace cost the Prince the sum of 13 million gulden, a figure
that Robbins Landon terms "astronomical".
Eszterháza was first inhabited in 1766, but construction continued
for many years. The opera house was completed in 1768 (the first
performance was of Joseph Haydn's opera Lo speziale), the
marionette theater in 1773. The fountain in front of the palace was
not completed until 1784, at which point the Prince considered his
project complete.
Location
The palace was built near the south shore of the Neusiedler See, on
swampy land, a health hazard at the time. Robbins Landon notes that
"it was a particularly eccentric idea on the part of Prince
Nicolaus to chose it as the site for a large castle. Possibly the
castle's existence was to prove 'mind over matter'.
Rooms
The palace has 126 rooms. Of particular note is the Banquet Room
which has on its ceiling a painting of Apollo in his Chariot. The
large library holds almost 22,000 volumes and is graced with the
letter 'E', standing for the family surname. The largest room is
the grotto-like Sala Terrana which was inspired by the then
fashionable Italianate style. On the ceiling are dancing Angels who
hold wreathes of flowers in the shape of an 'E'.
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Haydn at Eszterháza
From 1766 to 1790, the estate was the home of the celebrated
composer Joseph Haydn, where he lived in a four-room flat in a
large two-storey building housing servants' quarters, separate from
the palace. Haydn wrote the majority of his symphonies for the
Prince's orchestra. Eszterháza also had two opera houses, the main
theatre seating 400 (destroyed by fire in 1779) and a marionette
theatre; Haydn conducted his own and others' operas, often with
more than a hundred performances per year.
The palace was geographically isolated, a factor which led to
loneliness and tedium among the musicians. This is seen in some of
Haydn's letters, as well as in the famous tale of the Farewell
Symphony.
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Aerial archaeology is the study of archaeological remains by
examining them from altitude.
The advantages of gaining a good aerial view of the ground had been
long appreciated by archaeologists as a high viewpoint permits a
better appreciation of fine details and their relationships within
the wider site context. Early investigators attempted to gain
birdseye views of sites using hot air balloons, scaffolds or
cameras attached to kites. Following the invention of the aeroplane
and the military importance placed on aerial photography during the
First and Second World Wars, archaeologists were able to more
effectively use the technique to discover and record archaeological
sites.
Photographs may be taken either vertically, that is from directly
overhead, or obliquely, meaning that they are taken at an angle. In
order to provide a three-dimensional effect, an overlapping pair of
vertical photographs, taken from slightly offset positions, can be
viewed stereoscopically.
The advantages of an aerial photographs to archaeologists are
manifold.
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Large sites could for the first time be viewed accurately, in their
entirety and within their landscape. This aided the production of
drawn plans and also inspired archaeologists to look beyond the
discrete monument and to appreciate a site's role within its
setting. Photos are taken vertically for the purposes of planning
and spatial analysis and obliquely to emphasize certain features or
give perspective. Through the process of photogrammetry, vertical
photos can be converted into scaled plans.
Archaeological features may also be more visible from the air than
on the ground. Tiny differences in ground conditions caused by
buried features can be emphasised by a number of factors and then
viewed from the air:
* Slight differences in ground levels will cast
shadows when the sun is low and these can be seen best from an
aeroplane. These are referred to as shadow marks.
* Buried ditches will hold more water and buried
walls will hold less water than undisturbed ground, this
phenomenon, amongst others, causes crops to grow better or worse,
taller or shorter, over each kind of ground and therefore define
buried features and cast shadows. Such effects are called
cropmarks.
* Frost can also appear in winter on ploughed
fields where water has naturally accumulated along the lines of
buried features. These are known as frostmarks.
* Slight differences in soil colour between
natural deposits and archaeological ones can also often show in
ploughed fields as soilmarks
* Differences in levels and buried features will
also affect the way surface water behaves across a site and can
produce a striking effect after heavy rain.
In cases like the Nazca lines, the features are meaningless from
the ground but easily visible from the air.
Pioneers of aerial archaeology include Roger Agache in Northern
France, Antoine Poidebard in Syria and O. G. S. Crawford in
England.
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Mezőfalva, Bolondvár (Castle, aerial archaelogy)
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Stadtschlaining is a town in the district of Oberwart in
Burgenland in Austria. The European University Center for Peace
Studies is in Stadtschlaining.
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Hornstein is a town in the district of Eisenstadt-Umgebung in
Burgenland in Austria.
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Deutschkreutz is an Austrian market town in the District of
Oberpullendorf, Burgenland. Its Hungarian name is Sopronkeresztúr
(until 1899, Németkeresztúr), in Hebrew it is called Zelem.
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Neusiedl am See (Hungarian: Nezsider) is a town in Burgenland,
Austria, and administrative center of the district of Neusiedl am
See.
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Eberau is a village in the state of Burgenland (Austria) in the
administrative district of Güssing.
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Lockenhaus is a town in the district of Oberpullendorf in
Burgenland in Austria.
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Lackenbach is an Austrian municipality in the District of
Oberpullendorf, Burgenland. Its Hungarian name is Lakompak.
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Leithaprodersdorf, also (Leitha-Prodersdorf; Hungarian:
Lajtapordány, Lajtha-Pordány) is an Austrian town located in the
Eisenstadt-Umgebung district of the state of Burgenland.
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Kittsee is an Austrian municipality in the District of Neusiedl
am See, Burgenland. It is called Köpcsény in Hungarian, Kopčany in
Slovak and Gijeca in Croatian.
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Purbach am Neusiedlersee, which is sometimes written as Purbach
am Neusiedler See or Purbach am See, is a town in Burgenland,
Austria, known for its viticulture.
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Forchtenstein is a town in the district of Mattersburg in
Burgenland in Austria.
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Kobersdorf is an Austrian market town in Oberpullendorf,
Burgenland. Its Hungarian name is Kabold.
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Eisenstadt (Hungarian: Kismarton, Croatian: Željezno) is a city in Austria, the state capital of Burgenland. It has a population of about 12,000 (2006). In the Habsburg monarchy, Eisenstadt/Kismarton was the seat of the Eszterházy hungarian noble family. The composer Joseph Haydn lived there as Hofkapellmeister under Esterházy patronage
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Zalakaros is a town in Zala county, Hungary.
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Villány (German: Wieland, Serbian and Croatian: Vilanj /
Вилањ) is a town
in Baranya county, Hungary. Famous for its wine.
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