10 things you didn't know about Hungary
Posted by Budnews · Jun 30, 2017
Famous Hungarians and historical fun facts you’ve never heard.
We always talk about how cool and beautiful Hungary is nowadays, but we have a more than a thousand year long, interesting history. We do not want to give a long history lesson, but here is a short video about the most exciting events and persons of our last 1200 years and some fun facts we sure you never heard.
So these are the 10 things you will learn about in this ten-minute video:
- Unique origins of Hungarian
- Hungarian language, that differs from all others in Europe
- Mongolian invasion in the 13th century, which lead to one of the biggest, most serious battle of our history.
- Countess Elizabeth Báthory, who is known as the most prolific female murderer
- Goulash and other Hungarian dishes
- About our prime minister, who is a highly polarizing and controversial figure in the country and abroad
- Famous Hungarians who changed the world
- Thermal bathhouses and the history of this culture
- Hungarian Turanism, which is the collection of ideas and ideologies about how unique we are
- Hungarian Uprising of 1956, a nationwide revolt against Soviet tyranny