(MTI) – The government has changed a deadline to erect a monument in central Budapest to the victims of Hungary’s 1944 Nazi occupation from March 19 to May 31, the official Hungarian Gazette reported on Wednesday. The original deadline for…
The genetic atlas was put together by researchers at University College London and Oxford University and covers 4,000 years of human migration and mating histories for 95 different populations in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America, motherboard.vice.com reports. According to…
Budapest, February 12 (MTI) – The civilian victims of the WW2 Siege of Budapest were commemorated on Wednesday in Farkasret cemetery. Government Commissioner Laszlo L Simon, speaking in front of around a hundred people in the pouring rain, said the…
Budapest, February 6 (MTI) – There are no longer any obstacles for historians to study the common history of Hungarians and Croats, Croatian Ambassador Gordan Grlic-Radman said in Budapest today. Addressing a conference on the co-existence of the two nations,…
Legendary Hungarian goalkeeper Gyula Grosics was greeted on his 88th birthday in Budapest on Monday at the elementary school that bears his name. Minister of State for Sports and Youth István Simicskó said at the ceremony that while birthdays are…
The Embassy of Azerbaijan in Hungary organized event on the 24th anniversary of Black January tragedy. Members of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Hungary, representatives of NGOs, businessmen, as well as Hungarians, who are interested in Azerbaijan attended the event. The…
Budapest, January 22 (MTI) – The council of the 5th district of Budapest on Wednesday voted to allow the erection of a memorial commemorating the 70th anniversary of the German occupation of Hungary. At the extraordinary meeting, held after the…
Budapest, January 21 (MTI) – The head of Budapest’s Corvinus University has dismissed an appeal by the co-ruling Christian Democrats to remove a statue of Karl Marx from the university’s entrance hall. Zsolt Rostovanyi said in an open letter that…
(MTI) – The deportation of ethnic Germans from Hungary 68 years ago was an irreparable loss for the entire nation, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at a commemoration on Sunday. Hungary has suffered the horrors of dictatorship twice, which is…
The homeland of Hungarians’ closest relatives the Uyghurs lies in Xinjiang Province, western-China. Despite China’s bloody oppression of the Uyghur ethnic group, Uyghur history still keeps its secrets. The Uyghurs have ruled the wast land of Eastern Central Asia since…
Every person in Hungary as well as in the whole world should be aware of the crimes that were committed by communism, said Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics in the monthly journal of public service (called ‘Közszolgálat’) released this Thursday;…
After the Election 2014 the Hungarian Parliament will have just 199 seats instead of 386. For a month the National Assembly will be moved to the upper house, and after the election take possession again to the lower house. Here…
(MTI) – Hungary will no longer be disloyal to Szeklers and will never again turn against the nation, Parliamentary Speaker Laszlo Kover said on Tuesday at the 250th anniversary of the massacre of Madefalva (now Siculeni in Romania). Kover told…
Budapest, December 17 (MTI) – Parliament on Tuesday passed a bill submitted by the government for setting up next year a National Remembrance Committee tasked to help understand the Communist-era past. The bill was submitted by Justice Minister Tibor Navracsics…
(MTI) – A remarkable Zsolnay vase was sold at auction in Budapest’s Virag Judit Gallery on Sunday for 19 million forints (EUR 62,700), setting a new record for the work of the renowned porcelain and stoneware maker. The one-metre-high vase…
Budapest, December 12 (MTI) – President Janos Ader paid tribute to late Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on Thursday, at a ceremony marking Antall’s 20th death anniversary. At the ceremony, held in Budapest’s National Cemetery, Ader laid a wreath on the…
3Dpast is a new generation 3D theatre where you feel the emotions of the timetrip. In a short time, you may explore the colourful and impressive episode of the Buda castle. The 3D film is based on historical research. Because…
MTI – Lawmakers have debated a motion by the government to set up a National Remembrance Committee, which its proponents say will help understand the Communist-era past. In a parliamentary debate late on Tuesday, State Secretary Bence Retvari introduced the…
Who invented the ballpoint pen? This is a simple question, but not many people can say the right answer: Laszlo Jozsef Biro. In our life the ballpoint pen is one of a main assets but we still don’t know the…
Hungary marked the memorial day of those deported to the Soviet Union on Monday. On November 25, 1953, about 1,500 political prisoners returned from the Gulag to Hungary while as many as 800,000 Hungarians are estimated to have been sent…