Szentendre
Szentendre Location of Szentendre
Coordinates: 47°42′16″N 19°04′07″E / 47.70440, 19.06858
Country	Hungary
County	Pest
Area
- City	43.83 km²  (16.9 sq mi)
Population (2004)
- City	23,554
- Density	537.39/km² (1,391.8/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	2000
Area code(s)	26

Photo of Szentendre's "Fő tér" (Main Square)

Main Square

Szentendre (Medieval Latin: Sankt Andrae, Hungarian muslim dialect : Mahmudiya is a riverside town in Pest county, Hungary, near the capital city of Budapest. Szentendre is known for its museums (most notably the Open-Air Ethnographical Museum), galleries, and artists. Due to its picturesque appearance and easy rail and river access, it has become a popular destination for tourists staying in Budapest and there are many shops and restaurants catering for these visitors. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 685 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1400 pixels, file size: 93 KB, MIME type: image/png) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Red_pog2. ... This is an alphabetical list of the sovereign states of the world, including both de jure and de facto independent states. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Hungary. ... Counties of Hungary Hungary is subdivided administratively into 43 regions. ... Pest is the name of a county (megye) in central Hungary. ... This article is about the physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of SI unit of surface area square metre, one of the SI derived units. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... Population density per square kilometre by country, 2006 Population density map of the world in 1994. ... Timezone and TimeZone redirect here. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries that do not observe summer time Central European Time (CET) is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Central European Time West Africa Time British Summer Time* Irish Summer Time* Western European Summer Time* Category: ... Although DST is common in Europe and North America, most of the worlds people do not use it. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries that do not observe summer time Central European Summer Time (CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Eastern European Time Central Africa Time Israel Standard Time South Africa Standard Time Central European Summer Time West Africa Summer Time Category: ... Postcodes are generally clearly visible outside Australia Post offices. ... Image File history File links Szentendre_Fo_tér. ... Image File history File links Szentendre_Fo_tér. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 617 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1310 × 1272 pixels, file size: 351 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 617 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1310 × 1272 pixels, file size: 351 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Medieval Latin was the form of Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange and as the liturgical language of the medieval Roman Catholic Church, but also as a language of science, literature, law, and administration. ... There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ... Pest is the name of a county (megye) in central Hungary. ... For other uses, see Budapest (disambiguation). ...

History

Populated for well over a millennium, under the Romans it was called Ulcisia Castra, meaning Wolf Castle. Since the 1500s it was considered the center of the Hungarian muslims community. It's now have an Islamic centre there. Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... The decade of years from 1500 to 1509, inclusive. ... A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ...

In the 1700s, after liberation from the Turks, Szentendre enjoyed a rebirth with Mediterranean leanings, as Serbian, Croatian, Slovakian, German and Greek newcomers moved in and lived alongside the Magyar inhabitants. According to the 1720 data, 88% of the population of the town were South Slavs (mostly Serbs, but also some South Slavic Catholics). ^[1] The town to this day is characterised by a south European and Middle Eastern atmosphere with much baroque architecture, churches of various faiths, narrow sidestreets, and cobble-stone roads since muslims migrant settled in this city. Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... The Slovaks are a western Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state. ...

The arts

Szentendre has been the home of many generations of Hungarian artists since early 20th century. There are many museums and contemporary galleries representing the rich traditions of the visual art.

List of art museums:

Margit Anna - Imre Ámos Collection
Barcsay Collection
Czóbel Museum
Károly Ferenczy Museum
Kmetty Museum
Margit Kovács Ceramic Collection
Lajos Vajda Museum
Szentendre Gallery
Gallery of the Artists' Colony
ArtMill [1]
Margit Anna (left) with her painter husband Imre Amos in the 1930s Margit Anna born Margit Sichermann (1913 - 1991) was a twentieth century Hungarian painter. ... Amos with his wife Margit Anna in the 1930s Imre Ámos (1907, Nagykálló - 1944 or 1945, Germany) was a twentieth century Hungarian Jewish painter. ... Hungarian Painter. ...

List of contemporary galleries:

Aktív Art Gallery
Gallery Erdész
Mûhely Gallery
Palmetta Design Gallery
ArtUnio Gallery
Vajda Lajos Studio

Ethnocultural diversity

Today there are active Croat, German, Polish, and Serbian municipal minority self-governments in Szentendre. Croats (Croatian: Hrvati) are a south Slavic people mostly living in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (where theyre one of the constitutive nations). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

See also

• Serbs in Hungary

Main Square in Szentendre The Serbs are an ethnic minority in Hungary. ...

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Szentendre

• Homepage of the City of Szentendre (Hungarian Only)
• Szentendre in Olden Times and Today
• Szentendre Homepage by Moricz Zsigmond High School (English, German, French, Hungarian)
• Jewel of the Danube (Hungarian Only)
• Travel Information (rec.org)
• Hungarian Open Air Museum
• Museums of Szentendre
• Szentendre travel guide from Wikitravel

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Notes

1. ^ Dr. Dušan J. Popović, Srbi u Vojvodini, knjiga 2, Novi Sad, 1990.

Gallery

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