The 20th century. and the beginnings of the 21st At the beginning of the 20th century. there are examples of architecture open to the ‘functional’ experience (B. Laisha, 1873-1920) and to the teaching of the Bauhaus. After World War II, the reconstructions and extensions of inhabited and industrial centers (Berente, […]

In the phase comprised roughly between 1270 and 1330 the most lively building activity is testified by the cities – eg. Sopron, with the Franciscan church from around 1280. and the synagogue from around 1300, and Pozsony, with the church of the Franciscans consecrated in 1293 – and from the […]

The collegiate church of Duke Álmos in Dömös (consecrated around 1106 and dedicated to St. Margaret) has a Como-type architectural decoration. Around 1100 we encounter the first examples of figurative decoration, such as the lunette of the portal of the cathedral of Gyulafehérvár, the architectural members and the enclosure of […]

The differences between the individual areas of the Hungary medieval are also evident in the light of the ecclesiastical topography. The settlements of monastic orders were more numerous in Transdanubia, where Benedictine and Premonstratensian monasteries were already found within the boundaries of the ancient settlement areas; the Cistercians oriented themselves, […]

The foundation of the political-administrative organization of the country was constituted by the system of committees, which for the most part were not regions in a geographical or cultural sense, but corresponded to the territories administered by a comes from the king’s castles and are therefore of little significance as […]

Central European state, bordering Slovakia to the North, Ukraine to the NE, Romania to the East, Yugoslavia and Croatia to the South, Slovenia and Austria to the West. The name Hungary derives from the identification of the Hungarian people with the Onoguri Turks, while the names of Hunnia, Scythia, Pannonia […]

While the first with the Christmas Dream, with Annuska and with The wine frees popular drama from the operettistic elements and the false idealizations of peasant life, the second obtained deserved successes first (with Brigadier Ocskay) as the continuer of the new romantic tendencies that began towards the 1870 (Eugenio Rákosi, Luigi Dóczi and Luigi Bartók) […]

Excellent connoisseur of the stage, he has a sense of comedy and social satire. While Szigligeti’s followers (Giuseppe Szigeti, Edoardo Tóth, Francesco Csepreghy) sometimes even surpassed him, Jókai’s splendor overshadowed the other novelists of the time (Vas Gereben, Carlo Szathmáry, Alberto Pálffy, Luigi Degré, Ladislao Beöthy, Carlo Vadnay) and also […]

One of the noblest figures in Hungarian literature was Francesco Kölcsey (1790-1838), who also taught as a critic and political speaker. His lyric faithfully reflects the romantic world of the time. The nation welcomed his hymn as a prayer. His greatest contemporaries, Giuseppe Bajza, Francesco Toldy and Michele Vörösmarty, gathered around the Aurora, […]