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Árpád (c. 845 – c. 907) was the second Grand Prince of the Magyars ... as Saint Stephen, became the first King of Hungary in 1001 ending the succession ...

the title of Grand Prince. The first King of Hungary (Saint Stephen--the ... 1, 1001; thus, he became the first King of Hungary (1000–1038) and the ...

The Battle of Mohács ( mohácsi csata or mohácsi vész/Bane of Mohács; ... to growing Ottoman power, Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, entered ...

of the Magyars (997-1000/1001) and the first King of Hungary (1000/1001-1038). Stephen was born under the pagan Turkic name "Vajk," but was ...

The Jagiellons were a royal dynasty originating from Lithuanian House ... on her rights. He was also elected King of Hungary in dispute at first ...

* Albert, king of Hungary 1437 - 1439 * Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary, king of Hungary 1444 - 1457 ...

September 10, 1382, Nagyszombat/Trnava) was King of Hungary, King ... * [http://www.bartleby.com/65/lo/Louis1Hun.html Louis I, king of Hungary ...

of Anjou, and Charles Robert of Anjou-Hungary, King of Hungary and King of Croatia (1308-1342). He belonged to the royal house of Anjou-Hungary, was a ...

The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia or Galicia-Vladimir, was a principality ... for its success in preventing the loss of western Ukrainian lands to ...

the White Knight, was a Voivode (Ruler) of Transylvania (from 1441), captain ... His emphasis on tactics and strategy instead of over-reliance on frontal assaults ...

from 1765; Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia ... from 1790; Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia ...

The Counts of Cilli The house should be referred to in English by the ... the house died out its head held the rank of prince of the Holy Roman Empire ...

Matthias Corvinus (Matthias the Just) (February 23, 1443 – April 6, 1490) was king of Hungary and Croatia, ruling between 1458 and 1490. Corvinus ...

Saint Margaret (c. 1046 – November 16, 1093), was the sister of ... piety, was essential to the revivification of Roman Catholicism in Scotland ...

young. In 1450 he entered the University of Vienna, where he became a pupil ... Regiomontanus made a number of important observations, including eclipses ...

for defeating the Huns after the death of Attila. The state of the Gepids ... Empire, this space has known its share of conflict. Yet, despite centuries ...

The Mongol invasions of Europe were centered in their destruction ... To the Mongols, the European invasions were a third theater of operations ...

Saint Giovanni da Capestrano, known as John of Capistrano in English ... sick in the hospitals, and preached the word of God. He became a disciple of ...

Batu Khan (c. 1205 – 1255) was a Mongol ruler and the founder of ... use. Perhaps the most significant aspect of Batu Khan's legacy and ...

existed from 1346 to 1371, and was one of the larger states in Europe ... The Serbian Empire has included areas of Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia ...

is an equestrian statue of the first king of Hungary, King Saint Stephen ... named in honor of Stephen, the first King of Hungary (c. 975–1038), whose ...

Stanisław Szczepanowski or Stanislaus of Kraków (July 26, 1030 – ... Born in the village of Szczepanów, Stanislaus became Bishop of Krakow ...

27, 1676 - April 8, 1735) was the leader of the Hungarian uprising against ... He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member ...

with his half-brother Sigismund, then king of Hungary—expressed public indignation ... ], Wenceslaus' half-brother, then king of Hungary, and later his successor.]] ...

Leopold II of the Belgians (April 9, 1835 – December 17, 1909) succeeded ... for orchestrating the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 which would give him ...

The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the ... Some see the subsequent decline and fall of the Ottomans in terms ...

Court Jew is a term for Jewish leaders who rose to positions of influence ... the local high society and present petitions of the Jews to the ruler. ...

The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary) Monarchy, was a dualistic state (1867 ...

19, 1370), born Guillaume Grimoard, a native of France, was Pope from 1362 ... directing their energies to help the king of Hungary in his battles against ...

Place (French) is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded ... Archduchess Isabella, daughter of Philip II of Spain wrote about the ...

The Star of David is a widely recognized symbol of Judaism, named ... by the Nazis to stigmatize Jews), the Star of David continues to be a heroic ...

Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasties of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg ... to recognize John Szapolyai as King of Hungary. Whilst the peace between ...

ђевић) (Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro, December 4/December ... The logic of Yugoslavia was that a unified Balkan state could maximize ...

country in Central Europe with a population of over five million, bordering ... The eight hundred years of Hungarian oppression was openly confronted ...

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and is its largest city, with ... Bratislava was a key economic and administrative center of the Kingdom ...

eastern Europe in 1912–1913, in the course of which the Balkan League (Kingdom ... independence in 1878, and the re-emergence of a Croatian state in 1868 awoke ...

Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... ancestors. Raoul Wallenberg, Sr., died of cancer three months before ...

was the primary strategist and general of Genghis Khan (Temüjin) and ... When Batu returned to Mongolia for the election of the new Great Khan ...

on the Czech throne, as well as the King of Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor ... Political and religious policies of Rudolf II, King of Hungary and ...

The book of 3 Maccabees is found in most Orthodox Bibles as a part ... a concern with issues such as the struggle of the Jews against a Gentile ...

Stephen III of Moldavia, or Stephen III (c. 1433 - July 2, 1504), ... quot; in more modern versions) was Prince of Moldavia between 1457 and 1504 ...

and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the ... Europe as well as his homeland. His vision of founding a European army to ...

artist, and daredevil who captivated much of the Western world with his ... Houdini was born as Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary to a Jewish family; ...

order during the Middle Ages and much of the modern era. ... the Papal See, rather than that of the King of Hungary. Angered and alarmed ...

'remains') is a venerated object of religious and/or historical ... A relic is also the term for something that has survived the passage ...

and was known as the "Royal Church of St. Mary at Aachen" during ... The Cathedral of Aachen is one of the best-known architectural monuments ...

The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising ... The book takes up the story of the Maccabean martyrs told in 2 Maccabees ...

either males or females (the female version of the incubus is called a succubus ... in, which in this case means "on top of," and cubo, which is Latin ...

As Pope, Innocent III represents the height of the medieval papacy. His papacy ... Lotario de' Conti di Segni was the son of Count Trasimund of ...

The House of Nemanjić (Serbian: Немањићи, Nemanjići; Anglicized: ... Serbs, like any people, have a right to be proud of their history ...

III (c. 1004– January 5, 1066), son of Ethelred the Unready, was the ... His reign marked the continuing disintegration of royal power in England ...

Dacia, in ancient history and geography was the land of the Dacians ... and Rome, Emperor Trajan began the process of subjugating the empire and ...

The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an ... based on historic events and individuals of the fifth century and sixth ...

the Fair (French: le Bel), son and successor of Philip III, reigned as King ... A member of the House of Capet, Philip was born at the Palace of Fontainebleau ...

Transylvania is a Central European region located in the eastern half ... Géza, whose son Vajk became the first King of Hungary in 1001 under the Christian ...

2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible which focuses ... Pharisaic tradition, exposing the corruption of the priesthood, emphasizing ...

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On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the ... in its provinces was not only the death of the heir to the throne but ...

and European history. The last capital of Prussia was Berlin. Prussia ... the new polity. Had Austria done so, instead of being excluded, history may ...

during World War II, beginning at the age of 15, and the loss of his parents ... Wiesel was a passionate and powerful writer and author of more than ...

The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Cistercienses ), sometimes called the White Monks (from the color of their habit ...

Saint Martin of Tours (c. 316, Savaria, Pannonia – November 8, 397 ... with a freezing beggar and received a vision of Christ which moved him to renounce ...

1934. In 1939, Time magazine called her one of the two most influential women ... Her biographer said of her, "she was the voice of courage and ...

scientific, and governmental center of the Republic of Croatia. It ... but obeyed the kings and emperors of various neighboring powers ...

[[Image:Thomas-Cranmer-ez.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Painting of Thomas ... Thomas Cranmer (July 2, 1489 – March 21, 1556) was the Archbishop ...

a person or organization as an expression of protest or as a means of economic ... ==Origin of the term== The word boycott entered the English language ...

Norse: Jarizleifr) was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...

) is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with ... times as the Hellespont, have always been of great strategic and economic ...

1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved ... by 30 percent on average; in the territory of Brandenburg, the losses had ...

Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech ... Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of Europe ...

poet, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems. In 1761 Macpherson announced the discovery of an epic on the subject ...

Isabella of France (c. 1295 – August 22, 1358), later referred to ... With Mortimer, Isabella plotted an invasion of England to depose Edward ...

The largest portion lies within the borders of Poland; the rest is within ... the fourteenth century on, after the Czech king Charles IV of the Luxembourg ...

The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... Although barbarian cultures generally worked against the advancement ...

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The Crusades were a series of military campaigns first inaugurated ... Few contemporary Muslim accounts exist of the crusades, which were ...

also known as John Alexander, ruled as Emperor (Tsar) of Bulgaria ... unable to cope with the mounting incursions of Ottoman forces, Hungarian invasions ...

He led France during World War I and was one of the major voices behind the ... Clemenceau, however, secured France's trusteeship of Syria and ...

Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria (January 30, 1894 – August 28, 1943 ... under Soviet control after the collapse of Nazi Germany. The political ...

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a magical order of the late ... Thelema, and other forms of magical spirituality popular today, were ...

Ljubljana is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is regarded ... position. Ljubljana lies at the crossroads of Germanic, Latin, and Slavic ...

of Luxemburg, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Hungary, whose support for claiming ... a war against the Turks, in which the king of Hungary Matthias Corvinus would ...

and theologian who represented the revival of Scholasticism during the fifteenth ... Cajetan was Master General of the Dominican order, a Cardinal, and ...

(b. about 1362 – d. June 1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania ... .Endre Bojtár, Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic ...

Esztergom, and received recognition as King of Hungary in 1001, when Pope Sylvester ... VII. Béla III (1148-1196) was the King of Hungary from 1172-1196. He was ...

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies ... One of Europe's oldest cities, with a history of 7000 years, ...

Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 ... be reissued when it was clear that Louis VII of France would be taking part ...

instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a head ... Timpani evolved from military drums to become a staple of the classical ...

quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... It was given impetus by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the ...

Nicholas II of Russia (May 18, 1868 – July 17, 1918) ( ... , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ...

|name=Saint Lawrence of Brindisi |birth_date=July 22, 1559 ... Saint Lawrence of Brindisi (July 22, 1559 – July 22, 1619), born ...

Przewalski's horse is a rare, wild horse of Asia, Equus ferus ... endangered in the wild. As a result of its preservation and reintroduction ...

Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), ... a treaty of 1102, agreed to follow the king of Hungary but retained their own ...

Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the ... Starting with the observation of apparent movement, the phi phenomenon ...

The chansons de geste, Old French for "songs of heroic deeds ... gives birth to a son, Hugues, who becomes king of Hungary ...

ruled empires that dominated large portions of Europe and the Asia-Pacific ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...

to guide young people through the process of finding the right person to ... which involves the parents in a process of selecting marriage partners ...

to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation to Ghettos ... Born in Solingen, Germany, Adolf Eichmann was the son of a businessman ...

and the secular world, and is considered one of the most culturally significant ... and region. Elements common to many areas of the world include the attendance ...

empires over several hundred years, and one of the last remaining areas open ... were limited to Africa. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Italy ...

2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally ... Nationalism was on the rise in Europe. Towards the end of Garibaldi ...

The town is known for the famous Paulist monastery of Jasna Góra ... from the city center. These sites attract millions of pilgrims annually. ...

Edward VII (November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward held the title of Prince ...

actions against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period ... Critics of religion point to the Hussite Wars and to others conflicts ...

a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of seventeenth-century Rome. The ... * Herm of St. Stephen, King of Hungary - Bronze, Cathedral Treasury, Zagreb ...

was an English soldier and seaman, and one of the most colorful and important ... Unlike the founding of the Plymouth colony by religious dissenters ...

Mesmer's technique of healing was met with great enthusiasm by ... The later acceptance of hypnosis and psychoanalysis, as well as the ...

movement that unified different states of the Italian peninsula into ... Ideas of the new kingdom as the modern-day successor of the Roman ...

Anne (February 6, 1665 – August 1, 1714) became Queen of England ... both personally and relating to succession of the Crown and religious polarization ...

The Insurrection of August 10, 1792 was a defining event of the French ... Conflict between King Louis XVI of France and the country's new ...

the 95 Theses and nailed them to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg ... The remark "It has served us well, this myth of Christ" ...

), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... #039;s brother-in-law Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, was killed ...

Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country ... The Republic of Serbia comprises Serbia proper and two autonomous ...

War battle. He is often referred to as one of the greatest chess players ... In his later years, Fischer lived in Hungary, Germany, the Philippines ...

He was a student at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College, ... He was a musical patriot who believed strongly in the importance of ...

the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the twentieth century. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( December 1, 1918,–April 17, 1941), also ...

The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects ... history will view the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire in terms ...

, established in 1945, is an agency of the United Nations. Its purpose ... and offices throughout the world. Most of the field offices are "cluster ...

the United Kingdom as well as other areas of Europe and North America, and ... Gothic architecture aims to create an experience of the sublime or ...

United Kingdom and is celebrated in a number of countries that previously formed ... and spectators prior to the banning of this sport. The origin of the ...

Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... arrived in the area. The first establishment of Salzburg was the Benedictine ...

the Caucasus. They were active in the areas of southern Siberia, western Manchuria ... east, to defend China from the cavalry raids of the Xiongnu. Eventually the ...

all wars. Some question the appropriateness of the term “world war” because ... The legacy of the war, in many respects, was World War II, which was ...

Romania is a country in Southeastern Europe bordering Hungary and ... The modern state of Romania was formed by the merging of the Danubian ...

The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... . Much of the work of the Conference involved deciding which of the ...

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], pentekostē [hēmera], "the fiftieth day") is one of ... derives from the Greek name for Shavuot, one of the three Jewish Pilgrimage ...

The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...

The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation ... The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the transition from ...

Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a coastal Alpine ... Slovenia has been part of the Roman Empire, the Duchy of Karantania ...

was a Polish-born British novelist, one of the most important and respected ... Conrad's works draw on the symbolism of the Romantics and the ...

as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes ... system which eventually made it the target of a zealous, impoverished French ...

Bamako, a city of nearly 1.7 million people, is the capital and largest ... the area that is now Bamako has been part of the great west African empires ...

Polish statesman, Field Marshal, first Chief of State (1918–1922) and dictator ... Jerzy Jan Lerski. Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945. (Greenwood ...

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1945) was the prime minister and dictator of Italy from 1922 until 1943 ... Mussolini entered World War II in June, 1940 on the side of Nazi Germany ...

the thirteenth century and became a fixture of Christian mythology and literature ... The exact nature of the wanderer's indiscretion varies in different ...

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Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ...

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Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula ... northern areas which are roughly four fifths of the entire country, while Herzegovina ...

Rosicrucianism (meaning "Rose Cross") refers to a family ... Palatine) by Rudolph II, Emperor and King of Hungary and King of Bohemia ...

Operetta is a genre of the performing arts, related to opera, but ... made opera, a typically dense and epic form of entertainment, available to ...

Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel ... founded by Sigismund of Luxembourg (king of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia ...

As a Pythagorean mystic, he thought of the universe as founded on ... the Holy Roman Empire, king of Bohemia, and king of Hungary. ...

Catholic Church to reform itself in the wake of the Protestant Reformation ... clarification and reform in the areas of doctrine, ecclesiastical structure ...

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Water polo is a team water sport that combines elements of swimming ... == Overview of Rules == Glossary of Water Polo :Note: Rules below reflect ...

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The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... Germanic Europe, borrowing customs from each of the distinct traditions. Although ...

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... an event that coincided with the baptism of Duke Mieszko I. Poland became ...

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A cowboy is an animal herder, usually in charge of the horses and/or ... It appears to be a direct English translation of vaquero, the Spanish ...

The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church ... dedicated to justice, outreach and youth. As of 2006, the Community of Christ ...

from Latin, Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus), son of King Pippin ... III and is therefore regarded as the founder of the Holy Roman Empire (as Charles ...

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Francisco Franco, was the Dictator of Spain in parts of the country ... power in order to preserve a traditional way of life that was threatened, in ...

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The date commonly given for the start of the war is September 1, 1939 ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland—with King Charles III as head of state ...

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