Könyvesbolt

More than a thousand years have passed since the Magyars, a youngwarrior people from Asia, settled in the Danube basin, led by thelegendary prince, Arpad. Other extraordinary figures were involved intheir history: Stephen I., a saint and the true founder of the state ofHungary, and its first king , Matthias Corvinus (1443-1490), a hero ofthe resistance against the Turks during their invasion and thesovereign under Whom Hungary arose to a period of great splendorand a passion for Italian Renaissance art. Then, when the country, stillunder threat from the Ottomans (with vast areas under their dominionfrom 1440 to the late 1660s) entered the Hapsburg orbit, the quest forindependence continued to thrive. Politicians including Lajos Kossuthand poets including Sándor Petofi, set fire to the 19th century with thepassion of their patriotic sentiment. Hungary achieved its liberty at adear price, but then entered the sphere of Soviet influence after WWII.Only in 1990, did Hungary again become a