World History

World History stories covering key events, empires, wars and civilizations shaping our modern world.
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Commemorations held in honour of 1849 Arad martyrs – Photos

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National grieving day: 5 facts that put the tragedy of the 13 Martyrs of Arad into a different perspective

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What happened to the wives and fiancées of the 13 Martyrs of Arad? – 6 October 1849

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Historical Hungarian scandals – 3+1 things you may not have known!

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Have you heard about the Hungarian Robinson Crusoe?

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Now what: is Hungarian language Finno-Ugric or Turk?

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The Black Army of Hungary, the most powerful European army of its time

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Museum of Fine Arts to open after renovation in October – PHOTOS

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The Hungarian ‘suicide song’: Gloomy Sunday

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Glass blowing in the 21st century? Here is an original Hungarian glass blowing master

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How did Hungarians and a Hungarian village look like in A.D. 895? – videos

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Laos strategic partner in south-east Asia, says speaker of parliament

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Get to know the Kuruc rebels who almost broke Habsburg rule in Hungary

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Weekly nostalgia: retro cars that ruled Hungary between the 1960s-1980s – Photo Gallery

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Hódmezővásárhely to erect new memorial to 1919 mass murder

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The Siege of Szigetvár, aka ’the battle that saved civilization’

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The U.S. general who saved the Hungarian National Museum

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Orbán: Migration issue behind Sargentini report

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The Hungarian woman who spoke an incredible amount of languages

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Sunset movie Nemes Jeles

Hungary nominates Nemes’s Sunset for 2019 foreign-language Oscar

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‘Who’ did we pay with? – the Forint throughout history

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30-year-old BBC footage: what expectations did the Hungarian youth have back then?

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The Habsburg man behind so many Hungarian sights

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Monument to Mindszenty inaugurated in Northeast Hungary

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How is Elisabeth II 1/16 Hungarian? – photos, videos

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Sunset movie success

Academy Award Winner Nemes’s Sunset awarded FIPRESCI prize at Venice Film Festival

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Budapest's House of Fates, a Holocaust memorial museum

Budapest’s Holocaust memorial museum to open next year

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The medieval synagogue in the Buda Castle's Táncsics Street

Synagogue in Buda Castle reconsecrated – Photo gallery

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Statue of Hungarian statesman Széchenyi desecrated in Romania

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Óbánya – The Hungarian Switzerland

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Weekly nostalgia: the best retro Hungarian candies

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Hungarian Peacekeepers in Cyprus

Hungarian peacekeepers in Cyprus

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The Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 – photos, videos

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The martyr criminal of Hungarian history and the peasants’ revolt led by him

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Orbán Nelson Mandela

Budapest park to be named after Nelson Mandela

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National pantheon and palm garden in Budapest?

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Demjén Ferenc

Nostalgic Hungarian Songs & The Nicest Melodies to Heal Your Soul With

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Savaria Carnival

Savaria Historical Carnival last weekend – enjoy the photos here!

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Hungary donates EUR 2 m to rebuild Christian town in Iraq

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Szilárd Németh WW2

State secretary honours Hungarian, Russian soldiers fallen in WW2

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