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Elizabeth, Saint, daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary
(Encyclopedia)Elizabeth, Saint, 1207–31, daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary and wife of Landgrave Louis II of Thuringia. She is called St. Elizabeth of Hungary. She led a simple life, personally tended the sic...Leitha
(Encyclopedia)Leitha līˈtä [key], Hung. Lajta, river, 112 mi (180 km) long, formed in E Austria by the confluence of the Schwarza and Pitten rivers. It flows generally east to an arm of the Danube River near Mos...Horn, Gyula
(Encyclopedia)Horn, Gyula, 1932–2013, Hungarian political leader, b. Budapest, grad. Don Rostov College, Russia. In 1956 he joined Hungary's Communist party and helped crush the anti-Soviet uprising. He worked in...Jellachich de Buzim, Joseph, Count
(Encyclopedia)Jellachich de Buzim, Joseph, Count yĕˈlächĭch, bo͞oˈzĭm, –zhĭm [key], 1801–59, Austrian general, a Croatian nobleman. He was governor of Croatia when the revolution of 1848 broke out in Hu...Burgenland
(Encyclopedia)Burgenland bo͝orˈgənlänt [key], province, 1,530 sq mi (3,963 sq km), E Austria. The capital is ...Székesfehérvár
(Encyclopedia)Székesfehérvár sāˈkĕshfĕˌhârvär [key], Ger. Stuhlweissenburg, city (1991 est. pop. 109,100), W central Hungary. It is a county administrative center, a road and rail junction, and an industr...Nagy, Imre
(Encyclopedia)Nagy, Imre ĭmˈrĕ nôj, nŏdˈyə [key], 1896–1958, Hungarian Communist leader. Nagy was a symbol of the 1956 Hungarian revolt against the Soviet Union. As an agricultural expert he held several g...Rába
(Encyclopedia)Rába räˈbŏ [key], Ger. Raab, river, c.160 mi (260 km) long, rising in the mountains of SE Austria. It flows SE to the Austria-Hungary line, then NE through W Hungary to the Danube River at Győr. ...Debrecen
(Encyclopedia)Debrecen dĕˈbrĕtsĕn [key], city (1991 est. pop. 213,927), E Hungary, the nation's third largest city and the economic and cultural center of the Great Plain (Alföld) region E of the Tisza River. ...Kisfaludy, Károly
(Encyclopedia)Kisfaludy, Károly käˈroi kĭshˈfŏlo͞odē [key], 1788–1830, Hungarian dramatist, founder of the Hungarian national drama. Kisfaludy traveled abroad extensively and studied painting before he re...Browse by Subject
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