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    Buda Castle (Hungarian: Budavári Palota, German: Burgpalast), formerly also called the Royal Palace (Hungarian: Királyi-palota) and the Royal Castle (Hungarian:...
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    The Medieval Royal Palace of Buda Castle is a series of rooms from the old palace of the Hungarian kings, destroyed after 1686. Some rooms were unearthed...
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    The medieval Palace Chapel (Hungarian: Várkápolna; formerly Alamizsnás Szent János-kápolna) in Buda Castle was built in the 15th century by King Sigismund...
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    the western bank of the Danube. Historically, “Buda” referred only to the royal walled city on Castle Hill (Hungarian: Várhegy), which was constructed...
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    defensive walls of the Buda Castle complex, corresponding to the medieval royal city of Buda. Located on Várhegy (lit. 'Castle Hill'), it is the oldest part...
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  • This is a list of royal palaces, sorted by continent. List of palaces List of British Royal Residences Official residence Palais Royal (disambiguation)...
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  • racehorse Royal Palace Museum (disambiguation) Old Royal Palace, Athens, Greece Old Royal Palace (Prague), Czech Republic Medieval Royal Palace (Buda Castle),...
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    Visegrád (redirect from Visegrád Castle)
    the Angevin kings of Hungary, the castle became a royal residence and was enlarged with a new curtain wall and palace buildings. Around 1400 King Sigismund...
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  • in right of the Crown and retains its status as a royal residence. Very little of the medieval palace survived, but the most significant is Westminster...
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    city walls. Veszprémy, László. "Buda: From a Royal Palace to an Assaulted Border Castle, 1490–1541." In Medieval Buda in Context, pp. 495-512. Brill,...
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    Archduke Joseph's Palace (Hungarian: József főhercegi palota) is a former royal residence located on Castle Hill (Várhegy) in Budapest, Hungary. It was...
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    Budapest (redirect from Buda-Pesth)
    buildings with Baroque façades. The Castle District is another place to visit where the best-known landmark Buda Royal Palace and many other buildings were...
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    The Wawel Royal Castle (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvavɛl] ; Zamek Królewski na Wawelu) and the Wawel Hill on which it sits constitute the most historically...
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    pp. 106–107. Veszprémy, László. "Buda: From a Royal Palace to an Assaulted Border Castle, 1490–1541." In Medieval Buda in Context, pp. 495-512. Brill,...
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    French origin) established Buda as the royal seat of centralized power. They built a succession of palaces on the Várhegy (Castle Hill) and reached their...
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  • Amberd Castle Palace Korikos Castle Palace Lampron Castle Palace-Ancestral home of the Armenian Hethumid princes. Levonkla Castle Palace Mamure Castle Palace...
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    Royal residencies were also called palaces, for example, the Early Renaissance summer palace of King Matthias Corvinus in Visegrád or Buda Castle which...
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    Várhegy (redirect from Castle Hill (Buda))
    a representative royal palace in Buda. In 1881 architect Miklós Ybl was commissioned to rebuild the palace. Buda Castle Buda Castle Tunnel [de] Fisherman's...
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    Habsburg—fled with her retinue from Buda to Pressburg. The royal treasure (mostly valuable objects of art, the royal scepter, apple, and sword) and many...
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    Matthias Church (category Buda Castle)
    The Church of the Assumption of the Buda Castle (Hungarian: Nagyboldogasszony-templom), more commonly known as the Matthias Church (Hungarian: Mátyás-templom)...
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  • side of Buda Castle, historic district Krisztinaváros The Fisherman's Bastion panoramic view across the Danube to Pest, in the heart of the Castle District...
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    Óbuda (German: Alt-Ofen, lit. 'Ur-Buda' or 'Old Buda') is, together with Buda and Pest, one of the three cities that were unified to form the Hungarian...
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    Buda and Vienna. Historically the city has come under Ottoman and Habsburg control, and was known in many languages by translations of "white castle"...
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    Esztergom (redirect from Esztergom Castle)
    until the mid-13th century when King Béla IV of Hungary moved the royal seat to Buda. Esztergom is the seat of the prímás (see Primate) of the Catholic...
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    Hungary which were under the rule of the Ottoman Empire from the occupation of Buda in 1541 for more than 150 years, until the liberation of the area under Habsburg...
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    Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (category Kings of medieval Bohemia)
    consent of the king. During his long reign, the royal Buda Castle became probably the largest Gothic palace of the Late Middle Ages.[citation needed] In...
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  • different position. Buda Castle was enlarged and modernized in Renaissance style. King Matthias also built a sumptuous summer palace in Visegrád and an...
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    Mary, Queen of Hungary (category Medieval child monarchs)
    did not detain Mary and her mother who continued to live in the royal palace in Buda. Queen Elizabeth and Nicholas Garai decided to get rid of Charles...
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    walls around the town of Buda and set his own royal palace on the top of the protecting hills of Buda, creating a new royal capital in the decades between...
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  • Created a royal free city by Bela IV. 1248 - King Béla IV builds the first royal castle on Castle Hill, Buda. The new town adopts the name of Buda from the...
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