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The kuruc (Hungarian: kuruczok/kurucok [sg. kuruc(z)], Slovak: kuruci [sg. kuruc]) was a term used with several meanings: The last meaning represents the kuruc sensu stricto. This article is about the medieval crusades. ...
1514 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Dózsas execution György Dózsa (-Hungarian, Romanian: Gheorghe Doja) (died 1514) was a Szekler squire (by some accounts a nobleman) from Transylvania who led a so-called peasants revolt against the Hungarian landed nobility. ...
The Kingdom of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyar Királyság) is the name of a multiethnic kingdom that existed in Central Europe from 1000 to 1918. ...
Events May 9 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. ...
// Events February 24 - The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Friderich Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage. ...
Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy; also used as the flag of the Austrian Empire until the Ausgleich of 1867. ...
Royal Hungary was the official name of the territory of present-day Slovakia, Burgenland, western Croatia and small adjacent territories between c. ...
The kuruc (after 1671) were mostly composed of Magyars, Slovaks and Ruthenians. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Ruthenians is a name that has been applied to different ethnic groups at different times; for an explanation of the reasons for this, see Ruthenia. ...
Name The word as used in 1514 is derived from the Latin word "crux" (cross). After the Dózsa insurrection the expression fell into disuse and reemerged in the 1660's in the forms "kurus", "kuroc", “kurudsch“ and was understood as rebel, theft etc. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users. ...
A Greek cross (all arms of equal length) above a saltire, a cross rotated by 45 degrees For other uses, see Cross (disambiguation). ...
In 1671 the name was used by Meni, the belerbeg pasha of Eger in what is today Hungary, to denote the predominantly noble refugees from Royal Hungary. Afterwards the name became quickly popular and was used from 1671 to 1711 texts written in the Magyar, Slovak and Turkish language to denote the rebels of Royal Hungary and northern Transylvania. The rebels were fighting against the Habsburgs and their policy. Interestingly, the leader of the last of these rebellions, Francis II Rákóczi, himself did not use this term. Also, contemporary sources often used the term "malcontents" to denote those rebels. Events May 9 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. ...
Pasha (or pascha, bashaw; Turkish: paÅŸa) originally from Persian padshah or padeshah meaning king) was a high rank in the Ottoman Empire political system, typically granted to governors and generals. ...
(Eger is also German name for the city Cheb in the Czech Republic. ...
The Hungarian language is a Finno-Ugric language spoken in Hungary and in adjacent areas of Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Slovenia (all territories lost after World War I). ...
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Habsburg (sometimes spelled Hapsburg, but never so in official use) was one of the major ruling houses of Europe. ...
Statue in Szeged, Hungary Prince Francis II Rákóczi (historically also spelled Rákóczy, in Hungarian: , in Slovak: ) (1676 - 1735) was a Hungarian noble from the Rákóczi family, duke of Transylvania, then leader of the Šariš county. ...
Today's history texts use almost exclusively the sensu stricto meaning of the word.
The opposite term were (since 1526, more frequently since 1678) the labanc.
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