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July 18th, 2012

On Sunday we shall commemorate the Nándorfehérvár victory

Excerpt Via kormany.hu 

It will be 556 years on Sunday that the Christian Hungarian troops defending Nándorfehérvár, led by János Hunyadi, inflicted a crushing defeat on the army of Turkish Sultan Mehmet II on 22 July 1456 after a battle that ensued for more than two weeks, and thereby stopped the continued expansion of the Turks in Europe for some 70 years. Parliament declared this prominent day of Hungarian and European history and of Christianity the Memorial Day of the Nándorfehérvár Victory last year.

On the memorial day, a convoy of boats will arrive at the Chain Bridge, there will be a salute and, on behalf of the Government, Defence Minister Csaba Hende will deliver a ceremonial speech by the statue of János Hunyadi at the foot of Halászbástya.

The Nándorfehérvár Victory is one of the most significant Hungarian victories in Hungarian military history in the light of the circumstances of the military challenge and the long-term consequences and international significance of the victory. Bells in the Christian world have been rung at noon in commemoration of the Nándorfehérvár victory ever since; on this day, the Pope called upon people to pray for their freedom by the tolling of the bells at noon.

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  • Vándorló

    “Több is veszett Mohácsnál!”

  • Bowen

    Anyone remember the ‘Nyari Lanchid festival’ (Summer Chain Bridge festival) which used to run in June/July? The bridge would be closed to traffic, and there would be local food, crafts, and music. Very nice, it was.

  • http://www.allhungary.hu Erik D’Amato

    Hard to decide what’s the best element of this article, but if I had to choose it would be the fact that they don’t even once give the modern name/location of the place, even though most people who might read it in English won’t know where/what Nándorfehérvár is.

    • Leto. مؤدّب

      And if they had given that name then the usual suspects could have whined about Hungarian irredentism. :D

      • Bovli orszag

        I like the bit in the article where it says students will be marched to the Fisherman’s Bastion and given ‘a special history lesson’.

    • DoubleH63

      @Erik D’Amato “who might read it in English won’t know where/what Nándorfehérvár is”

      Poor Erik had to do some quick Google search before putting this up on his site :(

  • get real

    I guess you are talking about IANCU DE HUNEDOARA!

    The Hunyadi family were a noble family in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, of Wallachian[9] (Romanian)[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] origin according to the majority of sources. Hunyadi was named Valachus or Balachus (“the Wallachian”) in some contemporary texts.[19

    Vojk (or Vajk/Vayk) — Hunyadi's father — was described as being Vlach (an exonym and sometime endonym for Romanian) descent by medieval chroniclers[31] and modern historians.[12][32][33][34][35]

    so, the Romanians had the kingdom of Hungary also!

    Whau!

    VIVA TRIANON!

    • Truth

      Just look anthropology maps about average pigmentationType in google image searcher:”hair color map”or type:”eye color map”Romanians have darker average pigmentation(brown monkey eye color, dark hair)Their average body stature is smaller.They have semi-asian primitive orthodox “culture”.The vast majority of romanians were shepherd nomads until the 17th century.Learn genetics,don’t forget your high ratio of middle-eastern haplogroups!That’s why Hungarians call them gypsy nation.

  • Neighbour

    Magyars stop doing morons from yourselves. The Kingdom of Hungary did not belong to magyars. It was a multietnic kingdom. So, in the army of the kingdom not only magyars fought. There were germans, Slovaks, Romaninas, Czechs and so on in the army as well. According to magyars, the greatest antiturkish war hero was Gyorgyi Szondi (almost each magyar village or town has a streer named by his name – of course magyarized name). In fact, he was a Slovak squire from Turiec (a region in the middle of Slovakia) and his name was Juraj Sucha. He was a captain of the small fortress near the today Slovak-magyar border. The fortress belonged under the bigger fortress in Levice and the captain of the Levice fortress was not Magyar but German (I forgot his name).

    • Really?

      “The Kingdom of Hungary did not belong to magyars. It was a multietnic kingdom.”

      Really? Last time I checked the history books the Kingdom of Hungary belonged to the Magyars. It was also established by the Magyars. It existed for almost 1,000 years before it was dismembered by Trianon. True is was a multi-ethnic kingdom because when the Hungarians arrived in the Pannonian plain and Transylvania, all they found was collections and small villages of Slavs (Slovaks, Croats) and Hunnic and Avar peoples.

      The Magyars established the Kingdom of Hungary with these ethnic populations. There were no Kingdoms/nations/countries existing there at their arrival. There certainly wasn’t a “Slovakia” either!

    • Lars

      Medieval France Holy Roman Empire were also multietnic states in higher degree. Can you understand romani-an neighbour?

  • ThE_WoRd

    Me thinketh that Nándorfehérvár is actually modern day Belgrade (das Kapital of Serbia). Remind me to tell all of you about the week I spent one night with a Serb girl named Ingrid.

  • Lonzo

    In Germany nobody knows about the noon bell ringing origin. I found out here and when I tell friends in Germany they are always surprised at least – I think most times not even believing me ……….

  • Captain Hungary

    Nándorfehérvár/Belgrade was a Hungarian city. Today it is the capital of Serbia, but it always wasn’t so. Serbs only moved into Nándorfehérvár & Vajdasag (Vojvodina) in the 18th century after the Turks were pushed out by the Austrians. When the Austrians “liberated” Hungary from the Turks, they found huge areas of Hungary deserted. The Austrians moved in tens of thousands of Serbs further south to repopulate the area.

    Hungarians used to be a majority in the Vajdasag a few centuries ago. Unfortunately today, it a full of ignorant and racist Serbs repopulated from the territories lost from the Yugoslav wars from the 1990s. They beat and harass anyone who is not Serb.

  • get real

    this is important !

    VIVA TRIANON!

  • Lars

    “get real” is a gypsy = romanian, both culturally (balkan orthodox) both genetically (middle eastern and mongoloid genes is romanians & darker average pigmentation)

  • get real

    So the real Hungarian king was in fact a Romanian guy!

    Once he was no more ,the brave huns get lost in the Turkish empire after the Mohacs episode!

    I propose to the Turks to claim Hungary as a part of the Turkish empire!Now Great Turkey!

    VIVA TRIANON!

  • trollolah

    “get real” is a romexican, an olah who say “ola!”

  • get real

    VIVA GREAT Turkey THAT’S INCLUDE THE HUNGARY PROVINCE!

    VIVA TRIANON!

    • trollolah

      Viva Romexico Grande! That includes the Roalbanian Province, you little twat!
      VESSZEN TRIANON!

  • get real

    trolika look for you ancestors in Asia!

    VIVA TRIANON!

    • trollolah

      get wrong, look for your ancestors in Balkans!
      VESSZEN TRIANON!

  • get real

    VIVA TRIANON!

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