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26 unusual facts about Budapest


Albert W. Sherer, Jr.

After that in 1949 to 1951, he was political officer in Budapest, Hungary.

Aurél Stromfeld

Aurél Stromfeld (September 19, 1878, Budapest – October 10, 1927) was a Hungarian general, commander-in-chief of the Hungarian Red Army during the Hungarian Soviet Republic.

B2B

Budapest-Bamako, now the largest amateur rally in the world, the largest rally across the Sahara and an important charity car race in Africa

Buda, Nebraska

This time, according to local tradition, it "was called Buda after an old religious center," but more probably either directly or indirectly after Buda, a part of Budapest, Hungary.

Budapest-Nyugati Railway Terminal

The station gave name to the immediately adjacent Nyugati tér (Western Square), a major intersection where Teréz körút (Theresia Boulevard), Szent István körút (Saint Stephen Boulevard), Váci út (Váci Avenue), and Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út (Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Avenue) converge.

Ede Kallós

Born in Hódmezővásárhely, Kallós studied Budapest and Paris and his first major work was the statue of "Dávid".

Espresso con panna

Historically served in a demitasse cup, it is perhaps a more old fashioned drink than a latte or cappuccino, though still very popular, whichever name it receives, at Coffeehouses in Budapest and Vienna.

European Young Chemists' Network

At the brink of the 1st European Chemistry Congress on 31 August 2006 in Budapest (Hungary) a paper was written entitled Aims, Tasks and Goals of EYCN.

Francis Jehl

Jehl was survived by his wife, and son Fred Jehl, in Budapest, Hungary.

George A. Gordon

Gordon became a career foreign service employee in 1920, and served at embassies in Paris, Budapest, Berlin, and Rio de Janeiro.

Habitus: A Diaspora Journal

The journal's debut issue in the fall of 2006 was dedicated to Budapest.

József Hampel

Editor-publisher of the professional journals Archaeologiai Értesítő on Budapest.

József Róna

The equestrian statue is standing on the Danube terrace, in a prominent position, high above Budapest.

Kleparów

The building was designed by Ivan Levinsky in the Moorish Revival architectural style and decorated with many Eastern and Jewish symbols, similar to many well-known synagogues in Budapest.

László Széchenyi

The Count, besides, also owned a one-story, ten room house at 14 Eotvoss-street in Budapest.

Marcell Nemes

Marcell or Marczell Nemes (4 May 1866, Jánoshalma - 28 October 1930, Budapest) was a Hungarian financier, art collector and art dealer.

Maximilian Jaeger

Maximilian Jaeger (c1915-1999) was a Swiss Minister in Budapest from 1936 to 1944

Nicola Perscheid

Subsequently, Perscheid earned his living as an itinerant photographer; he worked, amongst other places, in Saarbrücken, Trier, and Colmar, but also in Nice, Vienna, or Budapest.

Pajtás

Pajtás was a steam powered passenger ship manufactured in 1918, by Schlick-Nicholson shipyard in Budapest.

Pro Scientia Medal

The Pro Scientia Medal was established in 1988 by NSSC, National Scientific Student Council (in Hungarian OTDT, Országos Tudományos Diákköri Tanács), Budapest.

Samuil Micu-Klein

Apparently, his goal was to make the bishopric become a metropolis, so it would no longer belong to the Archdiocese of Esztergom.

Stranger Than Paradise

When she arrives, she discovers that the only flight to Europe left that day is to Budapest, which is where she originally came from.

Šumadija–Vojvodina dialect

During the Great Serb Migration from 1690, many speakers of the dialect were settled in the Budapest region.

Trio Lescano

The three girls were born in Gouda (Alexandra) and The Hague, of August Alexander Leschan, a Budapest-born contortionist, and Eva de Leeuw (1892-1985), a Dutch Jewish operetta singer.

William J. Porter

After a chance meeting with United States Minister to Hungary John Flournoy Montgomery, Montgomery invited Porter to come with him to Budapest as his private secretary in 1936.

Zoltan Grad

Zoltan Grad, also known as Zoltan Deak (May 24, 1904 in Budapest, Hungary – January 29, 2003 in the Bronx, New York) was the editor of Magyar Szo, a Hungarian-American weekly newspaper based in Manhattan, for 51 years.


1998 European Marathon Cup

The 1998 European Marathon Cup was the 6th edition of the European Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Budapest, Hungary, inside of the 1998 European Championships.

2019 World Aquatics Championships

Budapest was awarded the 2021 Championships in the same vote.

Andrássy út

In September 2011, Secretary of State for Culture Géza Szőcs officially announced plans to build a new structure along Andrássy út close to City Park and near the existing Budapest Museum of Fine Arts and Budapest Art Hall (Műcsarnok).

Aquincum Institute of Technology

Aquincum Institute of Technology (AIT) is a Hungarian private university, created by the businessman Gábor Bojár, founder of Graphisoft, in Budapest.

Attacking Cavalryman Statue

Each of the pedestal's four sides had bronze bas-reliefs with images from the battles fought by the 2nd cavalry division at Prunaru, Măgheruș, the Dniester and Tisza-Budapest.

Aurél von Kelemen

In 1927 he was one of the founders of the first Hungarian Tungsram covered court at the Városliget.

BHÉV

Now integrated to MÁV's (Hungarian State Railways) network: Esztergom HÉV (today suburban railway, since 1931 owned by Hungarian State Railways), Lajosmizse HÉV (suburban railway, a.k.a. Budapest-Tiszai HÉV (1909)), Vác–Budapest–Veresegyház–Gödöllő HÉV (partially abandoned, but the Vác-Veresegyház-Budapest line is still in operation).

Bogomil Bonev

Thanks to Bogomil Bonev all the 56 criteria of the “Budapest process” were then met and this made it possible for Bulgaria to be taken out of the negative Schengen visa list in accordance with the unanimous decision of the Ministers of Interior of the member states of the European Community.

Budapest Challenger

Stella Artois Clay Court Championships, a short-lived Challenger, also from Budapest, but different district

C.A.F.B.

With the help of Benedek Fliegauf C.A.F.B. has been booked in the legendary alternative rock club "Black Hole" the first time ever in the summer of 1991 which helped the group move forward and get noticed in the Budapest punk scene.

Charlotte Bach

In 1968, Hajdu adopted the new role of Dr. Charlotte Bach, a supposed former lecturer at Budapest's Eötvös Loránd University, whose actual alumni included the philosophers Michael and Karl Polanyi and the mathematician John von Neumann.

Combino Supra

On August 1, 2006 Budapest mayor Gábor Demszky ordered all six trams to be withdrawn from service until technical problems were cleared up.

Constant Detré

Constant Detré (Szilárd Eduard Diettmann) was born in Budapest (then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) on 2 January 1891, and died 10 April 1945 in Garnat-sur-Engièvre a village of central France (département of Allier).

Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg

But before his arrival in Pest, Kossuth had incited the legislature to forbid his taking office as palatine of Hungary, and the army was instructed not to obey him.

Counter Terrorism Centre

TEK headquarters is located at Zách street (close to Hungária Boulevard), Pál Maléter Barracks, Kőbánya, Budapest, Hungary.

Danube Express

The Express now operates more frequently from Budapest to Istanbul (via Transylvania with stops at Sighişoara, Braşov (for Bran Castle), Veliko Turnovo and Kazanlak.

Dávid Kovács

Dávid Kovács (born on 15 March 1976 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician, former founding member of the Jobbik - Movement for a Better Hungary.

David M. Crowe

He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and has taught at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

Endre Szász

He had several exhibitions all over the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (Mexico City), Auschwitz Museum (Poland), the Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest), and also exhibited in Madrid, Copenhagen, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Oslo, Johannesburg, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Budapest, Amman (Jordan) and Tokyo.

Given to the Rising

The artwork for the album, designed by Josh Graham, is a mixture of photos from Heroes Square in Budapest and drawings inspired by the place.

Gyula Breyer

He was buried in Bratislava and after exhumation in 1987, was reburied in the Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest.

Hinduism in Croatia

The Embassy had nominated the Assistant Professor teaching Hindi in the Zagreb University to attend the Regional Hindi Conference held in Budapest in 2002 and Bucharest in July 2004.

Hubert Pál Álgyay

He designed the Petőfi Bridge in Budapest (1933–37) and also directed the widening of Margaret Bridge.

Hungarian Grand Prix

Held at the twisty Hungaroring in Mogyoród near Budapest, the race has been a mainstay of the racing calendar.

Institute of International Education

Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

Interactive Brokers

(IB) is a U.S. based online discount brokerage firm headquartered in Greenwich CT in the United States and with offices in Budapest, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Montreal, Mumbai, Shanghai, Saint Petersburg, Sydney, Tallinn, Tokyo, and Zug.

Joe Dial

Joe Dial (born 26 October 1962 in Marlow, Oklahoma) is a retired American pole vaulter, best known for winning the bronze medal at the 1989 World Indoor Championships in Budapest.

John Flournoy Montgomery

Montgomery was clearly expected to watch over the political intrigues not only in Budapest but, from his central location on the Danube, to monitor the goings-on in Hungary’s neighbors (Austria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia) and other countries in the region as well, including Bulgaria, Poland, Germany and Italy.

Jon Nakamatsu

During the summer of 2005, Nakamatsu toured with the San Jose Youth Symphony in Spain, performing the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, and in June 2007, he toured with the Peninsula Youth Orchestra to Budapest, Prague, and Teplice playing the same piece.

Katharine Goodson

When her sister Ethel, who had stayed with her during much of her time in Vienna, went to Budapest to become the governess to the son of Count István Tisza, the Prime Minister of Hungary, Goodson went to stay with academic and parliamentarian William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington and his wife Lady Katrina Conway at their London house.

Kathleen Butler-Hopkins

Butler-Hopkins has studied chamber music with Gilbert Kalish, Gunther Schuller, and members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Tokyo, and Budapest String Quartets, and received a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven with Lewis Lockwood at Harvard University.

Kingdom of Romania

War with the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 resulted in the occupation of Budapest by Romanian troops and the end of Béla Kun's Bolshevik regime.

Lajos Kozma

Born on September 2, 1938, in Lepsény, Hungary, he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, and made his debut at the Budapest Opera in 1962, where he won considerable acclaim as Pelléas in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande.

Lamoni, Iowa

In 1851 refugees from the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 sought to settle the area and form the community of New Buda (named for a neighborhood of Budapest).

Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst

Other museums and institutions bearing the name Ludwig are located in Bamberg, Basel, Budapest, Koblenz, Cologne, Oberhausen, Saarlouis, Beijing, St. Petersburg, Vienna and Havana.

Matteo Marchisano-Adamo

From 1991-1995 Marchisano-Adamo studied music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary with Ferenc Rados and Balázs Szokolay.

MÁV Class 242

In later years they were double-headed to haul the heavy Orient Express on the section from Budapest to Biharkeresztes.

Mediapro

MediaPro is based in Barcelona, with branch offices in Girona, Amsterdam, Budapest, Lisbon, Madeira, Madrid, Miami, Porto, Qatar, Seville and Tenerife.

Petya Miladinova

She has played in "Thessaloniki conspirators," "In the Moon Room", "Confusion", "That's absurd," "The Importance of Being Earnest", etc. and participated in numerous theatrical performances of festival projects in countries of Europe such as Hungary (Budapest and Szeged), Georgia, Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Russia (Yaroslavl) Italy (Urbino and Rome), France (Avignon) and Romania (Iași).

Rákóczi út

It starts at the Astoria, the intersection with Little Boulevard in the Downtown and runs to east between VII. and VIII. districts, crossing the Grand Boulevard until gets the Keleti Railway Station (the central inter-city and international railway terminal of Budapest).

Remember My Name

The review also praises how Rudolph "embellishes his film with sardonic humour", and the "comically macabre touch" of TV news in the background of disasters such as an earthquake that killed 1 million in Budapest.

Rózsa Hoffmann

She was awarded several prizes: "Eminent Pedagogue" (1992), Apáczai-Csere János Prize (1995), "For Budapest" Prize (1996), Trefort Ágoston Prize and Széchenyi Scholarship (2001).

Ruralia Hungarica

This was Dohnányi's contribution to the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the city of Budapest from a merger of Buda and Pest.

Sremska Mitrovica prison

On August 7, 1992, an agreement was reached between Yugoslav Prime Minister Milan Panić and Croatian Prime Minister Franjo Gregurić in Budapest for a mass exchange of prisoners.

Stefan Kanchev

After leaving the National Academy of Arts shortly before graduation, Kanchev took part in exhibitions and biennales in Bulgaria and abroad over the next 22 years, including Belgrade, Budapest, Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Brno, Ljubljana and New York City.

Széchenyi István College for Advanced Studies

The college initiated its own project to help young Roma people in the village and hosted groups of children in Budapest.