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Cities
Budapest
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Budapest is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial and transportation center]. In 2007 Budapest had 1,696,128 inhabitants with an official agglomeration of 2,451,418, down from a mid-1980s peak of 2.1 million. The city covers an area of 525 km² (202.7 sq mi) within city limits. Budapest became a ...More
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Debrecen
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Debrecen (approximate pronunciation, Deb-ret-sen, known by alternative names), is the second largest city in Hungary after Budapest. Debrecen is the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the capital of Hajdú-Bihar ...More
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Pécs
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Pécs
Pécs listen, is the fifth largest city of Hungary, located in the south-west of the country. It is the administrative and economical centre of Baranya county.
Pécs has been selected to be the European Capital of Culture in 2010 sharing the title together with Essen and Istanbul. The city's motto will be: "The Borderless City".
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The earliest name for the territory was its Roman na...More
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Szeged
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Szeged
Szeged (approximate pronunciation Seg-ed), (known also by alternative names) is the fourth largest city of Hungary, the regional centre of South-Eastern Hungary and the capital of the county of Csongrád.
Names
The name Szeged might come from the Hungarian word for corner because of the turn of the river Tisza there. Others say it comes from ...More
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Eger
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Eger
Eger is a city in northern Hungary, the county seat of Heves, east of the Mátra Mountains. Eger is best known for its castle, thermal baths, historic buildings (including the northernmost Turkish minaret), and red and white wines.
Name
The name Eger derives from the Hungarian word égerfa (alder tree). In German, the town is known as Erlau, in Latin as A...More
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Győr
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Győr
Győr is the most important city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron county and lies on one of the important roads of Central Europe, halfway between Budapest and Vienna. The city is the sixth largest in Hungary and one of the five main regional centres of the country.
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In other languages: Croatian: Jura, Đura, Vjura, German: Raab, Slo...More
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Kecskemét
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Kecskemét (approximate pronunciation, Kech-kem-it), is a city in the central part of Hungary. It is the 8th largest city of the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun.
Location
Kecskemét lies halfway between Budapest and Szeged, 86 kilometres from both of them, almost equal distance from the two big rivers of the country, the Danube and the Ti...More
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Kőszeg
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Kőszeg (German: Güns, Croatian: Kiseg) is a town in Vas county, Hungary. The town is famous for its historical character.
History
The origins of the only free royal town in the historical garrison county of Vas (Eisenburg) go back to the third quarter of the 13th century. It was founded by the Volfer family, a branch of the Héder clan, who had settled in Hungary in 1157. Sometime before 1274 He...More
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Miskolc
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Miskolc (pronounced [miʃkolts], approximate pronunciation: "Me-shkolts"; in Slovak Miškovec, in Polish Miszkolc) is a city in North-East Hungary, mainly with heavy industrial background. With a population close to 180,000 (2001) Miskolc is the third-largest city of Hungary (behind Budapest and Debrecen; second-largest with agglomeration.) It is also the county capital of B...More
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Sopron
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History
Ancient times-1400s
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...More
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