In depth recounting of my global wandering
The previous post ended with the eruption of chaos and violence among the demonstrators in Kossuth Square, the AVH, and the Soviet Army. As reports spread about the events in Budapest, [Photo From Museum of the Hungarian Parliament]. so did …
Maybe not better red than… The Second World War had ended. Hungary had signed the 1947 Treaty of Paris returning it to its pre-1938 borders. Unlike Yugoslavia where Tito’s Partisans had ruled the day, the Soviet Army played a major role …
I ended the previous post when, some 18 months after the armistice that brought World War I to its close, Hungary signed the Treaty of Trianon that left it not only considerably smaller in both area and population but substantially …
Part two of this brief overview of Hungarian history ended with Lajos Kossuth ascending to a position of national leadership as an element of the Hungarian War for Independence. Part three will take us up to the end of the …
In our last episode, Suleiman had killed King Louis and installed Janos (John) Zápolya as his vassal King of Hungary. Meanwhile, at the Diet of Bratislava, Ferdinand 1, Holy Roman Emperor who was also Archduke of Austria was declared King …