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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Battle of Mohács ( mohácsi csata or mohácsi vész/Bane of Mohács; ... to growing Ottoman power, Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, entered ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Jagiellons were a royal dynasty originating from Lithuanian House ... on her rights. He was also elected King of Hungary in dispute at first ...
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  • * Albert, king of Hungary 1437 - 1439 * Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary, king of Hungary 1444 - 1457 ...
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  • September 10, 1382, Nagyszombat/Trnava) was King of Hungary, King ... * [http://www.bartleby.com/65/lo/Louis1Hun.html Louis I, king of Hungary ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia or Galicia-Vladimir, was a principality ... for its success in preventing the loss of western Ukrainian lands to ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • from 1765; Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia ... from 1790; Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Matthias Corvinus (Matthias the Just) (February 23, 1443 – April 6, 1490) was king of Hungary and Croatia, ruling between 1458 and 1490. Corvinus ...
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  • Saint Margaret (c. 1046 – November 16, 1093), was the sister of ... piety, was essential to the revivification of Roman Catholicism in Scotland ...
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  • young. In 1450 he entered the University of Vienna, where he became a pupil ... Regiomontanus made a number of important observations, including eclipses ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Mongol invasions of Europe were centered in their destruction ... To the Mongols, the European invasions were a third theater of operations ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Stanisław Szczepanowski or Stanislaus of Kraków (July 26, 1030 – ... Born in the village of Szczepanów, Stanislaus became Bishop of Krakow ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • with his half-brother Sigismund, then king of Hungary—expressed public indignation ... ], Wenceslaus' half-brother, then king of Hungary, and later his successor.]] ...
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  • Leopold II of the Belgians (April 9, 1835 – December 17, 1909) succeeded ... for orchestrating the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 which would give him ...
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  • The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the ... Some see the subsequent decline and fall of the Ottomans in terms ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Place (French) is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded ... Archduchess Isabella, daughter of Philip II of Spain wrote about the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasties of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg ... to recognize John Szapolyai as King of Hungary. Whilst the peace between ...
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  • ђевић) (Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro, December 4/December ... The logic of Yugoslavia was that a unified Balkan state could maximize ...
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  • country in Central Europe with a population of over five million, bordering ... The eight hundred years of Hungarian oppression was openly confronted ...
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  • Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and is its largest city, with ... Bratislava was a key economic and administrative center of the Kingdom ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... ancestors. Raoul Wallenberg, Sr., died of cancer three months before ...
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  • was the primary strategist and general of Genghis Khan (Temüjin) and ... When Batu returned to Mongolia for the election of the new Great Khan ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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; ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 'remains') is a venerated object of religious and/or historical ... A relic is also the term for something that has survived the passage ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The House of Nemanjić (Serbian: Немањићи, Nemanjići; Anglicized: ... Serbs, like any people, have a right to be proud of their history ...
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