FLAG Flag of the Hungarian Liberation Fight, 1848, with the Hungarian Holy Crown

FLAG Flag of the Hungarian Liberation Fight, 1849, without the Hungarian Holy Crown

CORVINA Title page of the Philostratus, a book from the world-famous library of Matthias, the renaissance Hungarian king (1458-1490), the BIBLIOTHECA CORVINANA.

ERKEL Sculpture of Ferenc Erkel, the composer of the Hungarian National Anthem.

ELIZABETH Sculpture of Queen Elizabeth, wife of Emperor Franz Joseph. Coming from of a Bavarian dynasty, the queen loved the Hungarians with an unmatched affection.

TOMB SPEECH Page of a codex written in the early 13th century. Being a farewell speech over the grave of a deceased, this is the first written evidence of the Hungarian language in the form of a complete text. The codex is otherwise written in latin language and the reason why the monk wrote this single page in Hungarian, remains a mystery.

HUSZAR A Hungarian "huszar" (cavalryman) from the Eszterhazy-regiment, in 1762.

HUSZAR A Hungarian "huszar" (cavalryman) from the Adlige Laibgarde, in 1840. A captain.

KOLCSEY Ferenc Kolcsey, the poet of the Hungarian National Anthem.

GENERAL BEM Sculpture of Jozsef Bem, a general of the Hungarian iberation Fight, 1848-49.

KOSSUTH A stained glass window in a Budapest palace named after Lord Gresham, showing Louis Kossuth, leader of the Hungarian Liberation Fight, 1848-49.

LISZT Ferenc Liszt, a great Hungarian composer. Although barely speaking Hungarian, he proudly claimed himself to be Hungarian.

CLOAK A cloak of Matthias, the renaissance Hungarian king (1458-1490), with the Hungarian coat of arms on the back.

MATTHIAS CHURCH Interior of the Matthias chruch in Budapest, Old City. After the liberation of Hungary from the Ottoman occupation (1541-1686), this became the coronation church of the Hungarian (Habsburg) kings.

NATIONAL MUSEUM The Hungarian National Museum, Budapest

OPERA Interior of the Opera House in Budapest, a staircase. The Budapest Opera House was built after the design of the Viennese one, in the 19th century.

OPERA The auditorium of the Opera House in Budapest.

PETOFI Sandor Petofi, the foremost patriotic poet of Hungary. One of the central figures of the Hungarian Liberation Fight, 1848-49. He went missing in action at Segesvar, Transylvania (Sighisoara, Rumania today) during a battle in 1849. 

PRO LIBERTATE War flag ("For Liberty") from the Rakoczi Liberation Fight, 1705-1711, led by Ferenc Rakoczi II, Prince of Transylvania.

RAKOCZI Ferenc Rakoczi II, Prince of Transylvania, leader of the Rakoczi Liberation Fight, 1705-1711. A wonderful painting by Adam Manyoki, a court painter.

RIDER Golden figure of a Scythian rider, from the collection of the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. An archaeological finding in the Carpathian Basin.

NECKLACE A golden necklace, worn by the Scythians in the prehistoric ages, from the collection of the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest.

The Scythians lived in the present day Iran in the prehistoric ages, and after wandering through Asia, a group of them settled in the Carpathian Basin. In Iran (i.e. Babylon), archeologists found stone plates with a unique type of form-writing carved in them. That type of form writing is still used by the "szekelys", the original inhabitants of Transylvania, up to the present day, and is called the "cunei form-wirting". The fact that the Scythians and "szekelys" both used the "cunei form-writing", and that Scythian jewels, such as the RIDER and the NECKLACE were unearthed in the Carpathian Basin, suggest a direct link between the Hungarian-Sumerian common origin. (The other group of the Scythians wandered to the north of Europe and settled at the present day Finland. The Finnish people still call themselves Scythians, i.e. SUOMI = SOUMERIA, and the close linguistic relationship between the Finnish and the Hungarians is well-known and undisputed.

ST. STEPHEN I. Equestrian sculpture of Saint Stephen I, the first Hungarian king, with the Holy Crown on his head, holding his sign, the "apostolic" double-cross in his right.

VOROSMARTY Sculpture of Mihaly Vorosmarty, poet of the "Szozat", one of Hungary's greatest patriotic poems.

FLAG Flag of Hungary with the Royal Palace in the background. The present day Hungarian flag also has the Hungarian coat of arms in the middle white stripe.

© 1995 Andras Szeitz

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