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Szentgotthárd
Szentgotthárd ( sl, Monošter; german: St. Gotthard) is the westernmost town of Hungary. It is situated on the Rába River near the Austrian border. History The town took its name from, and grew up round, the Cistercian Szentgotthárd Abbey, founded here in 1183. In 1664, it was the site of the Battle of Saint Gotthard, where an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli defeated the Ottoman Empire so that the Turks had to agree to the Peace of Vasvár, which held until 1683. A second Battle of Saint Gotthard in 1705 was a victory for Rákóczi's anti-Habsburg Hungarian rebels. During World War II, Szentgotthárd was captured by Soviet troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front on 31 March 1945 in the course of the Vienna Offensive. Notable people *Ferenc Joachim (1882–1964), painter *Alajos Drávecz (1866–1915), Slovenian ethnologist and writer *Ágoston Pável (1886–1946), Hungarian Slovene writer and poet, graduated here *János Brenner (1931–1957), Roman Catholic prie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szentgotthárd Abbey
Szentgotthárd Abbey Janauschek number 470 is a former Cistercian monastery and church in Szentgotthárd Hungary that is now a Roman Catholic parish church. In hu, Szentgotthárdi ciszterci apátság; german: Kloster Sankt Gotthard; la, Abbatia Sancti Gotthardi, sl, Monoštrska cistercijanska opatija, Prekmurje Slovene: ''Monošterski cistercijánski klošter'') The first Szentgotthárd church and abbey was built in 1183 and demolished in 1604. The second church was built in the mid 1600s, but went out of use 100 years later. The current third church was built in 1748 and is still in use today. History First church In 1183, Hungarian King Béla III (1173–1196) founded a monastery in honor of Saint Gotthard at the confluence of the Rába and Lapincs rivers. Twelve Cistercian monks from Trois-Fontaines Abbey, France arrived in Hungary to staff the new Szentgotthárd monastery. The king hoped that the monks would provide technical aid to local farmers and also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szentgotthárd District
Szentgotthárd ( hu, Szentgotthárdi járás; sl, Monošter okrožje) is a district in south-western part of Vas County. ''Szentgotthárd'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography The Szentgotthárd District borders the Austrian state of Burgenland to the north and west, the Körmend District to the east, and Slovenia to the south. The number of the inhabited places in the Szentgotthárd District is 16. Municipalities The district has 1 town and 15 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipality is the city. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 14,961 and the population density was 59/km². Ethnicity Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Slovene (approx. 1,700), German (650) and Roma (350). Total population (2011 census): 14,961 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 15,706 persons: *Hungari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Saint Gotthard (1664)
The Battle of Saint Gotthard ( tr, Saint Gotthard Muharebesi; german: Schlacht bei St. Gotthard; hu, Szentgotthárdi csata), of the Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664), took place on 1 August 1664 on the Raab between Mogersdorf and the Cistercian monastery St. Gotthard in West Hungary (today Hungary). It was fought between Imperial Army forces, including German, Swedish and French contingents, led by Imperial Commander in Chief Count Raimondo Montecuccoli and the army of the Ottoman Empire under the command of Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Paşa. As the Ottoman army tried to advance through Hungary towards Vienna, they were stopped on the side of the river Raab where they were charged and defeated by the Imperial forces. As a consequence, the Ottomans signed the Peace treaty of Vasvár a week later, on 10 August. Even though the Turks were militarily defeated, Emperor Leopold signed a disadvantageous treaty which shocked Europe as well as the Hungarian magnates, leading to the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Saint Gotthard (1705)
Battle of Saint Gotthard was fought on 13 December 1705 between a Hungarian (Kuruc) army led by János Bottyán and an Austrian-Croatian-Serbian combined army under the command of Hannibal von Heister. The battle took place at Szentgotthárd ( West-Hungary, County Vas) and Nagyfalva (Mogersdorf) (today Austria), near the Austro- Hungarian border. The result of the battle was a Hungarian victory. On 2 November 1705 János Bottyán actuated the Hungarian campaign in Transdanubia. Before that he had only 8,000 soldiers at Kecskemét but this number later increased to 30,000 men. On 10 December Kőszeg capitulated and Bottyán moved to Szentgotthárd, where Heister was. The Kuruc Army between Mogersdorf and Szentgotthárd attacked the Austrians (the Habsburg troops was also consisted of several Croatian and Serbian corps). After the battle Heister headed for Stadtschlaining ''(Szalonak)'' and the Dunántúl was freed. References *Szentgotthárd, monography, Szombathely 1981. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tibor Gécsek
Tibor Gécsek (born 22 September 1964 in Szentgotthárd) is a retired male hammer thrower from Hungary. Gécsek is of Hungarian Slovenian descent. He won two consecutive World Championships bronze medals in 1993 and 1995. Later that year he received a four-year ban by the IAAF for a positive drugs test. The next year, however, IAAF shortened the maximum ban to two years. Gécsek was therefore reinstated after two years. His personal best throw was 81.68 metres, achieved in September 1988 in Szombathely, until he threw 82.87 metres to win the 1998 European Championships. This achievement earned him the title 1998 Hungarian Sportsman of the Year. Later that year he threw 83.68 metres in Zalaegerszeg to record his ultimate career best. Gécsek was elected Vice President of the Hungarian Athletic Federation on 10 November 2002. International competitions Awards * Hungarian Athlete of the Year (5): 1988, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2000 See also * List of doping cases in athletics A '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alajos Drávecz
Alajos Drávecz ( sl, Alojz Dravec) (29 November 1866 – 28 August 1915) was a Slovenian ethnologist and writer. Born in Rábatótfalu (now Szentgotthárd). His parents were István Drávecz and Rozália Korpics. The young Drávecz and his wife emigrated to the USA, then came back to Hungary, and settled down in Rábakethely (now Szentgotthárd). In 1915 Drávecz joined the forces and call out in North-Hungary (Slovakia), later in Moravia. He was killed in Lipník nad Bečvou, near Olomouc. Drávecz noted down the Slovene popular costume in the Luca day, and the Andrew day, and folk songs. His work * Národna vera i navade v vési See also * List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary * Hungarian Slovenes Hungarian Slovenes ( Slovene: ''Madžarski Slovenci'', hu, Magyarországi szlovének) are an autochthonous ethnic and linguistic Slovene minority living in Hungary. The largest groups are the Rába Slovenes ( sl, porabski Slovenci, dialectical ... References * Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irén Pavlics
Irén Pavlics ( sl, Irena Pavlič) (15 November 1934 – 2 February 2022) was a Hungarian Slovene author and editor. Pavlics was born in the village of Rábatótfalu (today the suburb of Szentgotthárd), Hungary, in 1934. She graduated from Szeged and by 1972 was a mistress in Apátistvánfalva. By 1990 she was an arch-lecturer for the ''Democratic League of South Slavs in Hungary.'' In 1990 she became a secretary for the ''League of Hungarian Slovenes.'' She wrote articles in Slovene in the ''Narodne Novine, Narodni kalendar''. In 1986 she wrote the ''Slovenski koledar,'' in 1990 in the newspaper ''Porabje.'' She died in Budapest on 2 February 2022, at the age of 87. Works * Manjšinski zakon na Madžarskem * Moji spomini na Števanovce See also * List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary References * ''Enciklopedija Slovenije''; zvezek 8, Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana, 1994 * Marija Kozar/Kozár Mária: ''Etnološki Slovar Slovencev na Madžarskem/A Magyarország ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Hungary
Districts of Hungary are the second-level divisions of Hungary after counties. They replaced the 175 subregions of Hungary in 2013. Altogether, there are 174 districts in the 19 counties, and there are 23 districts in Budapest. Districts of the 19 counties are numbered by Arabic numerals and named after the district seat, while districts of Budapest are numbered by Roman numerals and named after the historical towns and neighbourhoods. In Hungarian, the districts of the capital and the rest of the country hold different titles. The districts of Budapest are called ''kerületek'' (lit. district, pl.) and the districts of the country are called ''járások.'' By county Baranya County Bács-Kiskun County Békés County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Csongrád-Csanád County Fejér County Győr-Moson-Sopron County Hajdú-Bihar County Heves County Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Komárom-Esztergom County Nógrád County Pest County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ágoston Pável
Ágoston Pável, also known in Slovenian as Avgust Pavel (28 August 1886, Cankova, Kingdom of Hungary, today in Slovenia – 2 January 1946, Szombathely, Hungary) was a Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian. Education Ágoston Pável was born in Cankova (then part of Vas County) as the third child of Iván Pável, a tailor, and Erzsébet Obal. He attended elementary school in his native village. Although Slovene was his native language, Ágoston Pável graduated with excellence from a Hungarian-speaking high school in Szentgotthárd, being the top student among 28 from 1897 through 1901. Already in the early days, an amicable relationship developed between Pável and his class teacher Győző Schmidt. Schmidt, who was the high school's librarian and the editor of the local newspaper, taught him both Hungarian and Latin. Pável continued his studies at Premont College in Szombathely (1901–05). While attending college, he participated in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
János Brenner
János (Anasztáz) Brenner (; 17 December 1931 – 15 December 1957) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic priest and professed member of the Cistercian Order. Brenner studied for the priesthood during a period of communist persecution of religious orders. Communist authorities came to suspect him of being critical of their regime; his success as a youth chaplain made him a threat. As a consequence, he was murdered by hired men who stabbed him 32 times and inflicted severe wounds to his head. He died soon after having been hurled into a ditch in the woods. The beatification took place on 1 May 2018 in Szombathely. Life János Brenner was born on 17 December 1931 in the Vas County, Vas province as the second of three children. His two brothers also became priests. He attended a Cistercian-run grammar school in Pécs from 1941 to 1946 after the Brenners moved there. He later attended the grammar school that the Premonstratensian Canons Regular, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Joachim
Ferenc Joachim (May 21, 1882 – September 16, 1964) was a Hungary, Hungarian painter of portraits and landscapes in oil, watercolors and pastels on canvas, board and paper. He studied and painted in Budapest and Western Europe. As an untitled member of the minor nobility, Joachim was entitled to bear the honorary prefix ''Čachtice Castle, Csejtei'', so prior to the Communist abolition of honorifics in 1947 his name might be found in the form "Csejtei Joachim Ferenc" (or "Cs. Joachim F.") in Hungarian, or in German "Franz Joachim von Csejthey". Early life Joachim's parents were Ferenc Joachim and Emilia Metz of Szeged, Hungary. He had two brothers, Jozsef and Károly, and four sisters, Gizella, Mariska, Jolán, and Mici. The family was Roman Catholic. Some of his siblings were also artists in their own right: Jozsef was a sculptor and painter while Gizella became a stage actress. Ferenc Joachim was born in Szeged, in what was at that time the Austro-Hungarian Empire. For th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities And Towns Of Hungary
Hungary has 3,152 Municipality, municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: ''város'', plural: ''városok''; the terminology doesn't distinguish between city, cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 villages (Hungarian: ''község'', plural: ''községek'') of which 126 are classified as large villages (Hungarian: ''nagyközség'', plural: ''nagyközségek''). The number of towns can change, since villages can be elevated to town status by act of the President. The capital Budapest has a special status and is not included in any county while 23 of the towns are so-called urban counties (''megyei jogú város'' – town with county rights). All county seats except Budapest are urban counties. Four of the cities (Budapest, Miskolc, Győr, and Pécs) have agglomerations, and the Hungarian Statistical Office distinguishes seventeen other areas in earlier stages of agglomeration development. The largest city is the capital, Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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