Hungary (Geography) Most of Hungary is lowland; as much as 84 per cent lie lower than 200 m above sea level; just 2 percent is higher than 400 m. The lowlands, formed by the Carpathian Basin, consist of the plains Hungarian Plain (Alföld) in eastern and southeastern Hungary and Kisalföld in the northwest. Geologically, the… Read More »
Hungary’s border lies against countries such as Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. The Danube River largely divides the country between west and east. The country has known a Turkish occupation that ended after the Siege of Vienna in 1683. At that time, the Austrians drove the Turks away and Hungary came under… Read More »
Subchapters: Basic data Public finances and the state budget Banking system Tax system Basic data Before the pandemic, Hungary had one of the highest GDP growth rates in the EU. Thanks to the pandemic, GDP fell by 5.1% in 2020, increased by 7.1% in 2021, and the Hungarian government expects GDP to grow by only… Read More »
VISAS, ENTRY RULES, CUSTOMS REGULATIONS in Hungary On December 21, 2007, Hungary joined the ranks of the Schengen countries. To obtain a short-term tourist visa for up to 90 days, Russian citizens need the following documents: – a foreign passport, which is valid for at least six months after the end of the planned trip.… Read More »
The history of Hungary, as a formalized state, began about a thousand years ago, when the first Hungarian king, Istvan I (Saint), having received the blessing of Pope Sylvester II, laid the foundations of the Magyar statehood. Prior to this, the Roman province of Pannonia was located on the site of Hungary, which was regularly… Read More »
By train There used to be a Moscow-Budapest train, but it was canceled. Now you can take the Moscow-Prague train, a direct carriage to Budapest. On the way you will spend about 31 hours. And from the capital of Hungary it is convenient then to go to other European cities by train or plane. By… Read More »
Transportation Traveling by car/bus According to top-medical-schools, Hungary has a well-developed road network. Almost all main roads converge on Budapest in a star shape. The two main connecting roads from Budapest are the M1 to Hegyeshalom and the M7 to Lake Balaton. The M3 connects Budapest with the east (to Görbehaza), the M6 with the… Read More »
An important agrarian state even before the World War, agriculture is the basis of the Hungarian economy, as the crops, in addition to covering by far the internal needs and feeding some industries, allow a considerable export. Indeed, the agricultural area has greatly increased in relation to the total area due to the loss of… Read More »
In the last decade a series of researches has broadened the framework of knowledge on Hungarian archeology (see pannonia, XXVI, p. 202; aquinco, III, p. 809; brigezione, VII, p. 853). Prehistory. – In Zengővárkony, north of Pécs, an inhabited area and a cemetery (altogether about 70 ha.) From the end of the Neolithic age came… Read More »
Crossroads of different cultures due to the special geographical position, the Hungary he was able to elaborate every contribution in an original way. Thus was born an autonomous and relevant architectural production, whose essential component is still based on an advanced experimentalism. Despite the break of the Second World War and the parenthesis of socialist… Read More »
Architecture. – The Hungary it has developed an architectural language of great interest in which the functionalism inherited from the post-war period has progressively changed towards a neomodernism of international taste or towards different forms of regionalism. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Hungary, Historically part of the Eastern Bloc, has further westernized,… Read More »
The Hungarians found in the Danube basin an already remarkable artistic culture brought there by the Huns, the Avars, the Scythians, the Lombards. The Hungarians themselves brought with them an industrial art of a Persian-Sassanid mold, of which they were found adorned with metal and goldsmiths in the tombs. But the greatest artistic legacy came… Read More »
Political order. – The Hungarian constitution is founded on the constitutional law of 1222 (golden bull), and on the additional laws of February 28, 1920, August 14, 1925, November 14, 1926, June 18, 1933. Hungary is a monarchy (Királyság) with a throne vacant and in which the monarchical functions are exercised by a regent (Kormányzó).… Read More »
History The city of Budapest is the result of the unification in 1873 of the cities of Buda and Obuda, on the right bank, with Pest, located on the left bank of the Danube River,. Buda and Budapest itself, were the Hungarian royal See in various occupations during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Modern and contemporary times until 1944 when the monarchy disappeared… Read More »
Budapest is the capital of the Republic of Hungary. It lies in the Hungarian Plain on both sides of the Danube. It consists of the two districts Buda and Pest, which were united in 1872 under the name Budapest. See relationshipsplus.com for European oldest cities. Budapest has 1.74 million residents and is the administrative, economic and… Read More »
According to pharmacylib, the banks of the Danube with its magnificent buildings, the castle district and the approximately 2.5 km long Andrássy Street are among the most outstanding urban ensembles in the world. They reflect the role of Budapest in Hungary as well as in European history. Budapest: facts Official title: Buda Castle District and… Read More »
With its picturesque historical core, the museum village Hollókő (Rabenstein) in northern Hungary is an outstanding example of a village culture in the 17th century. Traditional village of Hollokö: facts Official title: Traditional village of Hollókő (Rabenstein) Cultural monument: Hollókő, a Palóczen village, also known as »Rabenstein«, with an almost unchanged historical center from the… Read More »
Location Hungary borders in the north with the Slovak Republic, in the north-east with Ukraine (Transcarpathian region), in the east with Romania, in the south with Croatia and the Republic of Serbia (province Vojvodina), in the south-west with Sloveniaand in the west with Austria (Burgenland). Hungary lies mainly in the Pannonian basin, which is surrounded… Read More »