The Castle of Munkács is one of the known and important sites of Hungarian history. The castle is best known for the presence of Ms Ilona Zrínyi here, who was [ … ]

For me Kraków is the nicest Polish city. It is second most populous, today it has a population of 760,000. Throughout the history of Poland, it was the capital city [ … ]

The city of Kassa (today Kosice, Slovakia) was one of the most important administrative and military centers of the Kingdom of Hungary. It was the seat of the county of [ … ]

Pola (today Pula, Croatia) was the monarchy’s most important naval base on the Istrian peninsula. Previously, along with Dalmatia, Istria and Pola were Venetian estates until the Napoleonic Wars. In [ … ]

Görz (Gorizia) formally became one of Austria’s provinces in 1500 as part of Görz and Gradisca county, along with the southern part of today’s Slovenia. In the following centuries, the [ … ]

Székelyudvarhely is one of the bigger towns of the Székely, a group of Hungarians who received special privileges in medieval times for military services at the Eastern borders of the [ … ]

The archbishop’s ancient seat of Trient was the most important centre of the southern part of Tyrol south of the Brenner Pass. Today it belongs to Italy (Trento) and it [ … ]

The town of Eperjes (today Presov) was founded in 1132 and flourished mainly in the 1500s. Due to its strategic location, in medieval times the town was often the scene [ … ]

Lajos Kossuth called Debrecen the “guard post of freedom”, and this name is reflected in many ways on the badges of the 3rd Honvéd Infantry Regiment. The central motif of [ … ]

In its long history, the provincial seat has been primarily important as the center of the archbishop’s administration, but it is also an old commercial center. Today it is a [ … ]