Buda (; german: Ofen, sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Budim, Будим,
Czech
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Places
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and sk, Budín, tr, Budin) was the historic capital of the
Kingdom of Hungary
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and since 1873 has been the western part of the
Hungarian capital
Budapest
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, on the west bank of the
Danube
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. Buda comprises a third of Budapest's total territory and is mostly wooded. Landmarks include
Buda Castle
Buda Castle ( hu, Budavári Palota, german: link=no, Burgpalast) is the historical castle and palace complex of the Hungarian Kings in Budapest. It was first completed in 1265, although the massive Baroque palace today occupying most of the si ...
, the
Citadella
The Citadella is the fortification located upon the top of Gellért Hill in Budapest, Hungary. ''Citadella'' is the Hungarian word for citadel, a kind of fortress. The word is exclusively used by other languages to refer to the Gellért Hill ...
, and the
president of Hungary
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's residence,
Sándor Palace
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It may refer to:
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* Sándor Apponyi (1844–1925) was a Hungarian diplomat, bibliophile, bibliographer and great book collector
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.
Etymology
According to a legend recorded in chronicles from the
Middle Ages
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, the name "Buda" comes from the name of
Bleda ( hu, Buda), brother of Hunnic ruler
Attila.
Demographics
The Buda
fortress and
palace were built by King
Béla IV of Hungary
Béla IV (1206 – 3 May 1270) was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1235 and 1270, and Duke of Styria from 1254 to 1258. As the oldest son of King Andrew II, he was crowned upon the initiative of a group of influential noblemen in his fath ...
in 1247, and were the nucleus around which the town of Buda was built, which soon gained great importance, and became in 1361 the capital of Hungary.
While
Pest was mostly
Hungarian in the 15th century, Buda had a
German
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majority;
however according to the Hungarian Royal Treasury, it had a Hungarian majority with a sizeable German minority in 1495. Buda became part of
Ottoman-ruled central Hungary from 1541 to 1686. It was the capital of the province of
Budin during the Ottoman era. By the middle of the seventeenth century Buda had become majority
Muslim, largely resulting from an influx of
Balkan Muslims.
In 1686, two years after the unsuccessful siege of Buda, a renewed European campaign was started to enter Buda, which was formerly the capital of medieval Hungary. This time, the
Holy League's army was twice as large, containing over 74,000 men, including
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,
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,
Hungarian,
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,
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,
French,
Croat
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,
Burgundian,
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and
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soldiers, along with other
Europeans as volunteers, artillerymen, and officers, the Christian forces reconquered Buda (see
Siege of Buda).
After the reconquest of Buda, bourgeoisie from different parts of southern Germany moved into the almost deserted city. Germans — also clinging to their language — partly crowded out, partly assimilated the Hungarians and Serbians they had found here.
[ As the rural population moved into Buda, in the 19th century slowly Hungarians became the majority there.
]
Notable residents
* Andrew III of Hungary
Andrew III the Venetian ( hu, III. Velencei András, hr, Andrija III. Mlečanin, sk, Ondrej III.; 1265 – 14 January 1301) was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1290 and 1301. His father, Stephen the Posthumous, was the posthumous son of ...
, (ca.1265–1301) King of Hungary
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and Croatia, 1290 to 1301, buried in the Greyfriars' Church, a Franciscan church in Buda
* Jadwiga of Poland
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, (ca.1373–1399), born in Buda, first female monarch of the Kingdom of Poland
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* John Corvinus
John Corvinus ( Hungarian: ''Corvin János'', Croatian: ''Ivaniš Korvin'', Romanian: ''Ioan Corvin''; 2 April 1473 – 12 October 1504) was the illegitimate son of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, and his mistress, Barbara Edelpöck.
Biog ...
(1473–1504) illegitimate son of Matthias Corvinus
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, King of Hungary, and his mistress, Barbara Edelpöck Barbara Edelpöck ( hu, Eedelpöck Borbála; died 1495) was the mistress of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary. She gave birth to the King's only, although illegitimate, child, John Corvinus.
Life
Barbara Edelpöck was a daughter of a citizen of St ...
.
* Louis II of Hungary
Louis II ( cs, Ludvík, hr, Ludovik , hu, Lajos, sk, Ľudovít; 1 July 1506 – 29 August 1526) was King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia from 1516 to 1526. He was killed during the Battle of Mohács fighting the Ottomans, whose victory led to t ...
(1506–1526) King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia from 1516 to 1526.
* Aaron ben Joseph of Buda
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(ca. 1686), poet
* Mihail G. Boiagi, (1780 – ca.1842) an Aromanian grammarian and professor
* László Szalay (1813–1864) a Hungarian statesman and historian.
* József Eötvös
József baron Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (pronunciation: jɔ:ʒef 'øtvøʃ dɛ 'va:ʃa:rɔʃnɒme:ɲ 3 September 1813 – 2 February 1871) was a Hungarian writer and statesman, the son of Ignác baron Eötvös de Vásárosnamény and ...
(1813–1871) a Hungarian writer and statesman.
* Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (; hu, Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp ; 1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian physician and scientist, who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Described as the "saviour of mothers", he discovered that t ...
(1818–1865), a Hungarian physician and scientist. An early pioneer of antiseptic procedures, he proposed doctors start the practice of washing hands
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.
* Kornelije Stanković, (1831–1865) notable Serbian composer, born and died in Buda
* Edmund Hauler Edmund Hauler (17 November 1859, in Buda – 1 April 1941, in Vienna) was an Austrian classical philology, classical philologist born in Ofen to a Danube Swabian Germans, German family. His father, Johann Hauler (1829–1888) was also a classical ph ...
(1859–1941), classicist
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and philologist
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Twin cities
* Capestrano
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History
Antiquity
In the necropolis the statu ...
, Italy
Gallery
File:Chiesa di Maria Maddalena.jpg, Mary Magdalene Church, Buda
File:Orszaghaz utca.jpg, Országház utca (= Parliament Street)
File:Ristorante del Vecchio Parlamento.jpg, Old Parliament Inn
File:Piazza di Buda.jpg, Buda Main Plaza
File:Ristorante Arany Hordo.jpg, Arany Hordó Inn
File:Úri utca 58, 60, 62, Budapest.jpg, Tárnok utca (= Treasury Street)
See also
* Pest
* Óbuda
Óbuda was a town in Hungary that was merged with Buda and Pest on 17 November 1873; it now forms part of District III-Óbuda-Békásmegyer of Budapest. The name means ''Old Buda'' in Hungarian (in German, ''Alt-Ofen''). The name in Bosnian ...
* Buda Castle
Buda Castle ( hu, Budavári Palota, german: link=no, Burgpalast) is the historical castle and palace complex of the Hungarian Kings in Budapest. It was first completed in 1265, although the massive Baroque palace today occupying most of the si ...
References
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External links
Drawings of Castle Buda over the centuries
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History of Budapest
Former capitals of Hungary
Former municipalities of Hungary