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| Here are 20 facts from the hungarian state |
Here are 20 facts from the hungarian state
The name hungary comes from the byzantine greek from the word oungroi.
This Greek name was borrowed from the Turkic-oghur language family from the word on-ogur which means ten tribes. Onogur was the collective name for the tribes that later joined the bulgar confederation that controlled the eastern part of hungary.
The design of the official flag of the hungarian state consists of three horizontal stripes with three colors, namely red, white and green. This design has been officially adopted since May 23, 1957. The design used is based on the design of the french flag, as a reflection of the ideas of the french revolution, while the colors used are derived from the coat of arms of hungary historically. The red color on the flag has the meaning of strength, the color white means loyalty and green means hope.
Hungarian forint is the official currency used by this country, this currency is encoded with HUF. If converted to the currency of our country, 1 hungarian forint has an exchange rate of 47.27 rupiah.
The kingdom of hungary was first established in 896 AD, making hungary one of the oldest countries in europe. This country was established before the existence of the french state, germany and the british empire. Hungarian is also known as magyar, which is a direct descendant of the language spoken by the hun people.
This language is not a group of indo-european languages and is one of the most difficult languages to learn. Together with austria, hungary established an austro-hungarian empire, and was once the most dominant power in europe until finally this empire collapsed after its defeat in world war I.
Hungary was one of the first communist-era countries to oppose the soviet regime during the cold war, especially with the hungarian revolution of 1956. In 1989, hungary was the first communist bloc country to open its borders with western Europe. In Hungary there is a tradition of riding horses or what is called csiko.
This tradition has been going on for a long time since the first inhabitants of hungary, namely the magyar people. They rode horses from central asia to what is now Hungary. If you have the opportunity to visit Hungary. You can see the right-hand mummy of king stephen I or saint stephen, the first king of hungary. The mummy of this hand is kept in the saint stephen basilica in budapest.
Hungary has no less than 1500 hot springs in its country, with about 123 of them in the city of Budapest. It is the capital of this hungarian country, as the city that has the highest number of hot springs in the world.
At least about 70 million liters of hot water rise to the surface of the earth every day. Hungary has a practice of hot spring public baths that dates back to Roman times. Hungary also has the oldest subway system in europe besides the city of london in the UK.
The railway was opened in 1896 when the country celebrated its 1000th anniversary, hence the name of the millennium underground. The railway line is used as the M1 subway and connects downtown Budapest with city park.
Budapest has one of the largest parliament buildings in the world. This building has an area of 18,000 square kilometers, and has 691 rooms, 20 kilometers of stairs and a height of 96 meters. The building was built in 1885 and completed in 1902.
The city of budapest also has the largest synagogue in europe and the second largest in the world, which is the synagogue of dohany street. The synagogue or kanisah is a place of worship for Jews.
This synagogue can accommodate as many as 3000 worshippers, with a building height of up to 44 meters and an area of 2000 square meters. The synagogue was built in 1854 and 1859 in the neo-moorish architectural style. Gul baba was a respected derwis of the ottoman empire.
His burial place was built during the invasion of the ottoman turkish empire in the 16th century. He was revered as a saint and after he died in 1541, his grave was on the northernmost side of the city of budapest becoming a favorite place of muslims as a place for pilgrimage.
Pecs City is a multicultural city where different ethnic groups live together side by side and peacefully, so the city is one of the cities of peace designated by UNESCO. The city of pecs being the site of the first university in hungary and also one of the oldest in the world, the university is the university of pecs founded in 1367.
Other famous buildings in the city are the pecs cathedral, the szchenyi ter synagogue pecs, and the pasha gazzi kassim mosque. The hungarian people are also known as one of the nations of inventors for the modern world.
Inventions by the hungarians included a voiceless lighter by jános irinyi, a rubik's cube by erno rubik, a krypton electric sphere by imre bródy, an electric motor by anyos jedlik, a modern transformer by otto blathy and miksa dery, a two-way phone by tivadar puskas, vitamin C by albert szent-gyorgyi, a thermography camera and a plasma television by kalman tihanyi, nuclear chain reaction by leo szilard, bolpoint by laszlo bureau, carburetor for stationary engine by banki donut, BASIC programming language by john kemeny and thomas E. kurtz, and hydrogen bomb by edward teller.
Judit polgar, is a hungarian chess grandmaster. She is considered the best female chess player of all time. In 1991, polgar earned the title of grandmaster when he was 15 years and 4 months old, and in those days was the youngest person to obtain the title and had broken the record of former world champion Bobby Fischer.
He was the youngest person ever to make the top 100 list of fide players or the world chess federation and was ranked 55th in January 1989 when he was 12 years old. In 2007, a total of 13 Hungarians received nobel prizes in every category except peace. This number exceeds the nobel prize gains achieved by the countries of Japan, China, India, Australia and Spain.
History and Facts about Hungary, One of the Oldest Countries in Europe