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Eger

Country:	Hungary
County:	Heves
Area:	92.2 km²
Population (2005): - Density:	56,317 610.8/km²
Postal code:	3300
Area code:	36
Coordinates:	47.89902° N 20.37470° E
Home page:	http://www.eger.hu/

Eger - Dobó square and the castle.

Eger is also the German name for the Czech town Cheb and the Ohře river.

Eger (Serbian and Croatian: Jegar / Јегар or Jegra / Јегра; Czech: Jager; Slovak: Jáger; Polish: Jagier; Turkish: Eğri; German: Erlau; Latin: Agria) is a city in northern Hungary, the county capital of Heves, east of Mátra mountains. Eger is mostly known for its castle, thermal baths, historical buildings (including the northernmost Turkish minaret) and the best Hungarian red wines. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Counties of Hungary Hungary is subdivided administratively into 43 regions. ... This article is about the county. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... A postal code (known in various countries as a post code, postcode, or ZIP code) is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. ... A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating telephone number ranges to countries, regions, areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks such as mobile phone networks. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Graphic representation of the world wide web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 408 KB) Dobo ter and Eger castle, Eger, Hungary Author: Wojsyl File links The following pages link to this file: Eger Images of castles ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 408 KB) Dobo ter and Eger castle, Eger, Hungary Author: Wojsyl File links The following pages link to this file: Eger Images of castles ... Cheb (German: ( )) is a city in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic, with 33,256 inhabitants. ... OhÅ™e (German: Eger) is a 291 km long river in Germany and the Czech Republic. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... This article is about the county. ... Mátra is a mountain range in Northern Hungary, near to the towns Gyöngyös and Eger. ... Minarets (Arabic manara منارة, but more usually مئذنة) are distinctive architectural features of Islamic mosques. ... Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of the juice of fruits, usually grapes, although a number of other fruits, such as plum, elderberry and blackcurrant, may also be fermented. ...

History

Eger has been inhabited since the Stone Age. During the early Middle Ages the area was inhabited by German, Avar, and Slavonic tribes. Hungarians occupied the area in the 10th century. St. Stephen (997–1038), the first Christian king of Hungary founded an episcopate in Eger. The first cathedral of Eger was built on the Castle Hill, upon the present site of Eger castle. Eger was built around its former cathedral, and has remained an important religious centre of Hungary since its founding. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Map showing the location of Avar Khaganate, c. ... Countries inhabited predominantly by Slavic peoples The Slavic peoples are a linguistic and ethnic branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in Eastern Europe. ... A statue of Stephen the Great King Stephen the Great or St. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Christianity. ... Episcopalian government in the church is rule by a hierarchy of bishops (Greek: episcopoi). ... A cathedral is a Christian church building, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Anglican, Catholic and some Lutheran churches, which serves as the central church of a diocese, and thus as a bishops seat. ...

The 14-16th centuries were an age of prosperity for Eger. Winegrowing, for which the town is famous, began to be important at that time. During the reign of King Matthias (1458-1490) when Renaissance culture began to affect Hungary, bishops of Eger had beautiful buildings built. Matthias Corvinus as depicted in Chronica Hungarorum by Johannes de Thurocz Matthias Corvinus (Matthias the Just) (February 23, 1443 (?) – April 6, 1490) was King of Hungary, ruling between 1458 and 1490. ...

During the Turkish occupation of Hungary, Eger became an important border fortress. Under the command of Captain István Dobó the defenders of the castle (less than 2,100 people, including women and children) successfully fought back a Turkish army of 80,000 soldiers. Most Hungarians know the story of the siege from the novel "Eclipse of the Crescent Moon" (Hungarian "Egri csillagok", lit. "stars of Eger") by the 19th century Hungarian author Gárdonyi Géza. Géza Gárdonyi (August 3, 1863 – October 30, 1922) was a Hungarian author. ...

Eger minaret

In 1596 a bigger army of the Turks attacked Eger, and took the castle after a short siege. Eger then fell under Turkish rule for more than eighty years and became the capital of a Turkish vilayet (administrative division). The Turks transformed churches into mosques, rebuilt the castle, and built other structures including public baths and minarets. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 200 KB) Eger minaret, Hungary Author: Wojsyl File links The following pages link to this file: Eger Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 200 KB) Eger minaret, Hungary Author: Wojsyl File links The following pages link to this file: Eger Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ... Minarets (Arabic manara منارة, but more usually مئذنة) are distinctive architectural features of Islamic mosques. ... Vilâyet (also eyalet or pashaluk) was the Turkish name for the provinces of the Ottoman Empire. ... A mosque is a place of worship for followers of the Islamic faith. ... External links Minarets, at the Encylopedia of the Orient Minaret Photo Gallery Categories: Stub | Mosques | Architectural elements ...

After the Turks' failed attempt to conquer Vienna, the Habsburgs, who controlled the rest of Hungary, began to drive the Turks out of the country. The Christian army led by Charles of Lorraine occupied the castle of Buda in 1686 and starved the castle of Eger into surrender in 1687. Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 Vienna (German: Wien ) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... Habsburg (sometimes spelled Hapsburg, but never so in official use) was one of the major ruling houses of Europe. ... During the course of the Ottoman wars in Europe, the War of the Holy League (1682 - 1699) was marked by the rise of a new Holy League initiated by Pope Innocent XI and composed of the Holy Roman Empire (headed by Habsburg Austria), the Venetian Republic and Poland in 1684... Charles IV (* April 5, 1604 in Nancy – September 18, 1675 in Allenbach), was the titular Duke of Lorraine from 1661 to 1670 See also: Dukes of Lorraine family tree Categories: French people stubs | Dukes of Lorraine | 1604 births | 1675 deaths ... Events The League of Augsburg is founded. ... Events March 19 - The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. ...

Eger began to prosper again. The bishops reclaimed the town, causing many of the Protestant inhabitants to leave. During the 1703-1711 war of independence against the Habsburgs, the town supported the Hungarian leader Prince Francis II Rákóczi, but the Imperial army defeated the Hungarians, and soon after that Eger suffered from a plague. During the 1700s many people immigrated to Eger, and between 1725 and 1750 the population has risen from 6000 to 10,000. New buildings were built in Baroque (and later in Zopf) style, including the cathedral, the Episcopal Palace, the county hall, the college (now called Eszterházy College after its founder) and several churches. Also the mosques were transformed into Catholic churches. Francis II Rákóczi Francis II Rákóczi (Borsi, March 27, 1676 - Rodosto, Ottoman Empire, April 8, 1735) was the leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs in 1703-11 as the prince (fejedelem) of the Estates Confederated for Liberty of the Kingdom of Hungary. ... Events and trends The Bonneville Slide blocks the Columbia River near the site of present-day Cascade Locks, Oregon with a land bridge 200 feet (60 m) high. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens. ... Zopf is a type of Swiss bread made from white flour, milk, butter and yeast. ...

The 19th century began with disasters: a fire destroyed half of the town in 1800, and the southern wall of the castle collapsed in 1801, ruining several houses. Eger became archiepiscopal seat in 1804. Despite the town's struggle for greater freedom from the church's rule, the archbishop remained firmly in control of the town. In 1827 a fire damaged most of the town center again, and four years later an epidemic killed more than 200 people. In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop heading a diocese of particular importance due to either its size, history, or both, called an archdiocese. ...

The Basilica of Eger.

The inhabitants of Eger took an active part in the revolution in 1848. Even though the revolution was suppressed, the age of landowners and bondsmen was gone forever, and Eger became free from the archbishop's rule in 1854. Sadly the railway main network was complete by that time so Eger was not included on the main line between Miskolc and Budapest, leaving the role of railway junction to the nearby small town of Füzesabony. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 449 KB) Eger Basilica, Eger, Hungary Author: Wojsyl File links The following pages link to this file: Eger ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 449 KB) Eger Basilica, Eger, Hungary Author: Wojsyl File links The following pages link to this file: Eger ... —Alexis de Tocqueville, Recollections The European Revolutions of 1848, in some countries known as the Spring of Nations or the Year of Revolution, were the bloody consequences of a variety of changes that had been taking place in Europe in the first half of the 19th century. ... Nickname: Steel City; City of the Open Gates Location of Miskolc in Hungary Coordinates: Country Hungary Region Northern Hungary County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén Town since 1365 City since 1909 Urban county since 1970 Mayor Sándor Káli (MSZP) Area    - City 236,68 km² Population    - City (2004) 178... Nickname: Paris of the East, Pearl of the Danubeor Queen of the Danube Location of Budapest in Hungary Country Hungary County Pest Mayor Gábor Demszky (SZDSZ) Area    - City 525,16 km²  - Land n/a km²  - Water n/a km² Population    - City (2006) 1,695,000  - Density 3570/km...

After World War I, economic recovery started slowly. Gárdonyi's "Eclipse of the Crescent Moon" (1899) made Eger popular as a tourist attraction, and the archaeological excavation of the castle began. World War II, the retreating German army, and the occupying Soviet troops all had their effects on the town, but the town was never bombed. Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul...

Today's Eger is a prospering town and a popular tourist destination with a charming Baroque town centre.

Ecclesiastical history

Eger is a Roman Catholic archiepiscopal see and Ecclesiastical province of Hungary, founded as a bishopric in 1009 and made a Metropolitan archdiocese in 1304, by Pius VII. The suffragan dioceses are Kosice (Kassa, Kaschau), Rozsnyó garve (Rosenau), Szathmàr and Szepes (Zipo, Zipsen). An ecclesiastical province is a unit of religious government existing in certain Christian churches. ... Pius VII, né Giorgio Barnaba Luigi Chiaramonti, (August 14, 1740 - August 20, 1823) was Pope from March 14, 1800 to August 20, 1823. ... Košice (German: Kaschau, Hungarian: Kassa) is Slovakias second largest city. ... Rosenau may refer to various place in Europe: in Austria a community at the Hengstpass a village near Windischgarsten a hamlet near Seewalchen am Attersee in Upper Austria the two boroughs of Rosenau Markt and Rosenau Schloss in the city of Zwettl in Lower Austria Schloss Rosenau (Waldviertel), a castle... Spiš (in Latin: Scepusium, in Polish: Spisz, in German: Zips, in Hungarian: Szepes) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. ...

It had in the eary 20th century 633,804 Latin Catholics; 81,217 Greek Catholics and 503,407 partly Greek Schismatics and partly Protestants, with a sprinkling of Jews. The 200 parishes had 342 secular clergy and 51 religious. The vernacular tongue is largely Hungarian but German, Croat, Slavonic and Armenian are also spoken.

Districts of Eger

Roofs of Eger

• Almagyar - This hill in the Eastern part of the town is one of the posh areas of Eger, near to the castle. Its southern part gives place to some buildings of the Eszterházy College.
• Almár - The northernmost part of the town, mostly weekend cottages can be found here.
• Belváros (Downtown) - The center of Eger is often called "the Baroque Pearl of Europe". Here are located the Dobó square, the main square of the historical town, surrounded by Baroque houses and the St. Anthony Church. Other historical buildings include the Cathedral and the Lyceum.
• Berva housing estate
• Castle of Eger - The oldest and most famous part of Eger.
• Cifra hóstya - North from downtown, this part of the town is full of small houses and narrow one-way streets. You can find the Firefighter Museum here.
• Csákó - Garden town area with larger houses, east of the train station.
• Érsekkert (Bishop's Garden) - The largest park of Eger with sport facilities, a small lake, and a fountain.
• Felnémet - This village was annexed to Eger in the second half of the 20th century and still preserves the characteristics of a village.
• Felsőváros (Upper Town, former Cheboksary Housing Estate) - The largest housing estate of Eger is full of four- and ten-storied concrete buildings, providing homes for one third of the town's population. Three secondary schools can be found in this district.

Aerial photography of part of the town

• Hajdúhegy - Garden town area similar to that in Almagyar Hill.
• Hatvani hóstya - The district is divided by the Highway No. 25. Eger's stadium and Protestant church can be found here.
• Industrial zone - Many multinational companies settled here, east from Lajosváros.
• Károlyváros (Charles Town) - One of the largest districts of Eger, Károlyváros is west from downtown. The Tobacco Factory, the High School for Health Professions, and the Dobó István Garrison can be found here.
• Lajosváros (Louis Town) - This district is in the southern part of the town. Many high schools and student hostels can be found here. Detached homes make up most of the district.
• Maklári hóstya, Tihamér - This district is one of the fastest developing parts of the town. Public swimming pools can be found here.
• Pásztorvölgy - A garden town area.
• Rác hóstya - Another garden town area west from Upper Town.
• Szépasszonyvölgy ("Valley of the Beautiful Woman") - One of the most famous areas of Eger and the Eger wine districts, Szépasszonyvölgy is mostly known for its wine cellars.
• Tetemvár - Another garden town area. According to the legend, the dead Turkish soldiers were buried here in 1552, hence the district's name ("Dead Bodies Castle".)
• Vécseyvölgy - A garden town area with a small unpaved airport that's used for sport purposes only.

Main sights

The cathedral at night

• Castle of Eger
• The Cathedral
• Minaret (northernmost minaret of Europe and one of only three existing minarets in Hungary)
• Szépasszonyvölgy (The Valley of Beautiful Women - location of many of the wine cellars in the area
• Dobó Square
• Teacher's training college (A camera obscura in the top of the building reflects images of the entire city on a table in front of you.)
• Turkish Bath
• The Minor-Provost’s Palace
• Archbishop’s Garden
• The Fazola gate
• The Minorite Church
• The Orthodox Church
• The Cistercian church
• The Archbishop’s palace

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Twin towns

• - Cheboksary, Russia
• - Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
• - Gainesville, Georgia, USA
• - Gheorgheni, Romania
• - Kutná Hora, Czech Republic
• - Mâcon, France
• - Pamukkale, Turkey
• - Pori, Finland
• - Przemyśl, Poland
• - Sarzana, Italy

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Trivia

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Sources and external links

• Eger travel guide from Wikitravel
• This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. Agria
• egercity.hu Full featured site of Eger with tourist information, maps, programmes - in Hungarian and English
• Egeronline.com - Comprehensive and richly illustrated articles, photogalleries, QuickTime VRs, and maps about Eger and its neighbourhood - in Hungarian and English
• City Info in Hungarian, English, German and Italian
• Official site Links to information in English, German, French and Dutch
• Guide to the Eger region at worldtravels.com
• A modern traveller's account of his visit to Eger
• Eger.lap.hu Link collection - in Hungarian
• Eszterházy College Eszterházy College - in Hungarian and English
• AgriaComputer Local news - in Hungarian
• egervaros.hu
• Aerial photography: Eger
• Eger and its surroundings on old postcards (collection of the city library)

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