Szekszárd is a town in The Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság) or Hungary (Magyarország) is a landlocked country in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. It is known locally as the Country of the Magyars. National motto: (none current) historical: Regnum... Hungary and the capital of Tolna is the name of: an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in present Hungary, an administrative county in the former Kingdom of Hungary, a town in Hungary. Tolna county Tolna county lies in central Hungary. It lies on the west bank of the river Danube. It shares borders with the... Tolna county. By population Szekszárd is the smallest county capital in Hungary; by area it is the second smallest (after Tatabánya.)

Location

Szekszárd lies at the meeting point of the Transdanubian hills and the The Pannonian plain is a large plain in central/south-eastern Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea (see below) dried out. The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half. map of Pannonian plain The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps... Great Hungarian Plain.

History

Szekszárd was first mentioned in Events August: Canute the Great invades England. Berserkers are banned in Norway. Olav Haraldsson becomes king of Norway. Sviatopolk succeeds Vladimir as prince of Kiev. Births Michael V, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1042) Harald III, king of Norway (d. 1066) Deaths Vladimir, prince of Kiev Categories: 1015 ... 1015. The The longest lasting of the western Catholic monastic orders, the Benedictine Order traces its origins to the adoption of the monastic life by St. Benedict of Nursia (Norcia) in 529. Benedict, founder of the monastery of Monte Cassino between Naples and Rome, wrote a Rule or plan of life for... Benedictine monastery of the town was founded by King Béla I in Events Normans conquer Messina in Sicily Pope Alexander II elected Births Vratislav II, (king from 1085), Bohemian aristocrat Deaths July 19 or July 27 - Pope Nicholas II Categories: 1061 ... 1061.

During the reign of King Matthias Corvinus (Mátyás in Hungarian), (February 23, 1443 (?) - April 6, 1490) was one of the greatest Kings of Hungary, ruling between 1458 and 1490. Matthias was born in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) in Transylvania in 1443 as the second son of John Hunyadi, a famous Transylvanian warlord of... Matthias Szekszárd was the estate of Bishop John, who was involved in a conspiracy against the king. Because of this King Matthias ordered the castle of Szekszárd to be demolished.

In Events August 22 - Battle of Bosworth Field is fought between the armies of King Richard III of England and rival claimant to the throne of England Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond. Richard dies in battle and Henry Tudor becomes King Henry VII of England. First appearance of the sweating sickness... 1485 Szekszárd was already a significant town, holding five market days a year, but during the Turkish occupation of Hungary the town became deserted and the monastery was destroyed.

By the (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. Historians will sometimes specifically refer to the 18th century as 1715-1789, denoting the period of time between the death... 18th century Szekszárd was again a significant town, it became a county seat, and got a coat of arms. The town was destroyed by a fire in Events February 11 - 1st session of the United States Senate is open to the public. March 14 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. March 27 - The United States Government established a permanent United States Navy and authorized the building of six vessels (in 1797 the first... 1794, but it couldn't stop the town's development. Most of the important buildings – including the City Hall is a 1996 film directed by Harold Becker. Categories: Stub | City halls ... town hall, the county hall and several churches – were built in the Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. In the sense of the Common Era... 19th century. By this time Szekszárd already had 14.000 residents.

Mihály Babits, an important Hungarian poet was born n Szekszárd.

Tourist sights

• Old county hall ( Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity as setting standards for taste which the classicist seeks to emulate. Classicism is usually contrasted with romanticism; the art of classicism typically seeks to be formal, restrained, and Apollonian rather than Dionysiac, in Friedrich Nietzsches well... neo-Classical style)
• Augusz manor ( Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a virtuoso pianist and composer. He was born in the village of Doborján, near Sopron, Hungary, in what was then the Austrian Empire. Since the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, the city is now Raiding, Austria. His baptism records... Franz Liszt was a guest here)
• Deutsche Bühne, Ungarn (the only German theatre of the country)
• Birthplace of Mihály Babits, museum
• Ruins of Benedictine monastery

Twin towns

Szekszárd is This article is about partnerships between towns distant from each other; see Twin cities for the different concept of physically neighbouring cities. Town twinning or sister cities is a concept where towns or cities from geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the accent on fostering human contact and... twinned with:

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External sites

• Official site (http://www.szekszard.hu)

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