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World History stories covering key events, empires, wars and civilizations shaping our modern world.

A high-class prostitute – the first Hungarian celebrity scandal

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What if the Austro-Hungarian Empire reunited today? – VIDEO

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The Hungarian underground art and Polish solidarity

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Kossuth Lajos 1848

The Hungarian revolution of 1848 in the middle of a pandemic

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March 15th 1848, the beginning of the War of Independence

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Esterházy

Ethnic Hungarian politician János Esterházy commemorated on birth anniversary

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March 15 - National flag hoisted by Parliament

March 15 – National flag hoisted by Hungarian Parliament – PHOTOS

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1848 – Hungarian Revolution Day celebration was held in Delhi

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atomic energy paks radioactive

Ten years after Fukushima, Japan remembers ‘man-made’ nuclear disaster

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Heros' Square Hősök Tere Kollázs

Time travel around Budapest; how it looked in the past century vs now – PHOTOS

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The unique café culture of Budapest – Video

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The youth group of Putin’s party wreathed the memorial of the Hungarian POWs by mistake

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Buda Castle’s Turul statue flew away – PHOTOS, VIDEO

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Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, marks 90th birthday on Zoom

Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, marks 90th birthday on Zoom

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magyarosaurus_dacus_hungary_dinosaurus

Hungarian-led team rediscovers dinosaur site in Transylvania

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special bach edition

Revolutionary new Bach-edition released by Hungarian professors

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Khojaly genocide

Khojaly genocide marks its 29th anniversary – readers’ letter

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Pope Francis appoints Hungarian historian to head Pontifical Committee

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Pope Francis visited Hungarian Holocaust survivor

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Lóversenypálya 1944

Gestapo-like terror of Jews and their Hungarian saviours

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Hungary returns child armour of King Sigismund II Augustus to Poland

Hungary returns child armour of King Sigismund II Augustus to Poland

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Budapest Ostroma Siege of Budapest WWII Videogame

Hungarian man develops WWII game about the Siege of Budapest by himself – VIDEO

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He was arrested in the winter of 1944 and taken to the Gestapo

Nazi victim soccer player commemorated in Budapest

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crossbow Matthias Corvinus

Crossbow of Matthias Corvinus exhibited in New York is a fake?

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Puchner Castle Hotel Bikal

What did medieval Hungary look like? – new free downloadable map shows

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Hungary, Slovenia police thwart illegal sale of rare scripts – Video

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busójárás festival Mohács Hungary

2021 busójárás is cancelled – but what is behind this tradition?

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heroes' square

The symbolic meaning of the Heroes’ Square in Budapest – PHOTOS

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The Transylvanian Trilogy

New Trilogy explores the rich history tied to Transylvania

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The greatest Hungarian Medieval king to be reburied in the 2020s?

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orbán eu summit

Orbán to Stern magazine: Europe composed of sovereign nations

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kincsem park

Kincsem Park – The Most Beautiful Racecourse in Eastern Europe

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Colorized documentary

From Heroes to Senteced – Colorized documentary

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love 1974

Sex education in Hungary back in the old days

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Májzli Dog Breed Kutya 6

The rarest Hungarian dog breed you never heard of is almost extinct – PHOTO GALLERY

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Sisi, Queen of Hungary, history

Sisi’s lost treasures found at the Buda Castle excavations – PHOTO GALLERY

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Time travel around Lake Balaton; how it looked in the past century and how it looks now – PHOTOS

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PM Orbán marks passing of last Hungarian Puma war pilot

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King Matthias Corvinus Mátyás Király

Was the biggest Hungarian king really Romanian? – we can now learn the truth – VIDEO

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kubala fc barcelona

Ranking the best Hungary soccer stars of all time

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