Throughout its history, the European country of Hungary, changed the location of its capital city several times.

Middle Ages

* Esztergom, from 1000 to 1256 (it was also one of the centers of the Principality of Hungary, probably from the reigns of Grand Prince Taksony or

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) *

Székesfehérvár Székesfehérvár (; german: Stuhlweißenburg ), known colloquially as Fehérvár ("white castle"), is a city in central Hungary, and the country's ninth-largest city. It is the regional capital of Central Transdanubia, and the centre of Fejér ...

, it often changed the capital title with Esztergom (one of the centers of the Principality of Hungary until Stephen's crowning. Royal seats, crowning, burials, and Hungarian Diets took place from 1000 to 1543) *

Buda Buda (; german: Ofen, sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Budim, Будим, Czech and sk, Budín, tr, Budin) was the historic capital of the Kingdom of Hungary and since 1873 has been the western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest, on the ...

, from 1256 to 1315, from 1408 to 1485 and from 1490 to 1536 (1541)Pressburg became the capital of Habsburg Hungary (

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) in 1536, however the Queen, the infant counter-king John II and George Martinuzzi secured Buda until the Ottoman annexation (1541) * Temesvár (present-day Timișoara), 1315–1323Kristó Gyula - Barta János - Gergely Jenő: Magyarország története előidőktől 2000-ig (History of Hungary from the prehistory to 2000), Pannonica Kiadó, Budapest, 2002, , p. 687, pp. 120-121 ("1315-ben Károly a királyi székhelyet a kevésbé biztonságos Budáról a nehezen megközelíthető Temesvárra helyezte át.."/"In 1315 Charles Robert moved the royal seat from the less safety Buda to the outway Temesvár (Timișoara).", "Károly Róbert a királyi székhelyet 1323 tavaszán Temesvárról Visegrádra helyezte át."/"Charles Robert moved the royal seat from Temesvár (Timișoara) to Visegrád in the spring of 1323") * Visegrád, from 1323 to 1408 * Bécs (Vienna), from 1485 to 1490, when Matthias Corvinus occupied Lower Austria and put his seat to Bécs (Vienna)

Modern era

* Pressburg/Pozsony (present-day Bratislava) from 1536 to 1783 (during Ottoman occupation) * Lippa (present-day Lipova), from 1541 to 1542, capital of the

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for a short time * Gyulafehérvár (present-day Alba Iulia), from 1542 to 1570, royal residence and the capital of the

(it was also the centre of the latter Principality of Transylvania) *

, from 1783 to 1873 * Debrecen, in 1849 and in 1944 (during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and at the end of World War II) * Budapest (including Buda), 1873–''present''

Capitals of Pannonia province

Note that the Roman provinces on the territory of today's Hungary, notably

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, had other capitals. Capitals of Roman (Lower) Pannonia, located in the territory of present-day Hungary, were: Aquincum (today ''Óbuda''), Savaria (today ''Szombathely'') and Sopianae (today ''Pécs'').

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