304 result(s) for memorial year
Festival This Weekend To Commemorate 1566 Siege Of Szigetvár
- 4 Aug 2016 2:45 AM
- community & culture
A festival commemorating the 450th anniversary of the Ottoman siege and the heroic defence of the fortress of Szigetvár will be held in the southern Hungarian town on Friday and Saturday.
Hungarian State Opera Announces 2016/17 Hungarian Season
- 15 Jul 2016 9:06 AM
- community & culture
The Hungarian State Opera is again offering more than 2000 programmes in the new season. The Hungarian Season will feature pieces by countless major Hungarian composers, choreographers and directors. In addition to the 28 opera and ballet premieres being added to the enormous classical repertoire, the season will also include a steady stream of musicals, grand operettas, concerts, talk programmes ...
Expulsion Of Germans One Of “Darkest Chapters” In Hungarian History, Says State Secretary
- 13 Jun 2016 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The expulsion of ethnic Germans from Hungary from the end of WWII was one of the “darkest chapters of Hungarian history,” a state secretary at the prime minister’s office said in Bonyhád, in southern Hungary, on Saturday. Árpád Potápi addressed the unveiling ceremony of a plaque for those Germans who were forced from their homes in Bonyhád and other localities in Tolna county.
Treasures From Saint Martin’s Birth Land Shown In Szombathely
- 3 Jun 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
An archaeological exhibition unique of its kind is to be open within the framework of Saint Martin’s Memorial Year in Pannonhalma and Szombathely. The collection – boasting an array of famous archaeological finds and numerous gold objects, among them one item of the Nagyszentmiklós hoard – presents a period of nearly five centuries of Pannonia, Saint Martin’s land of birth, providing also an ...
Hungary Marks Heroes’ Day
- 30 May 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Ceremonies were held throughout the country on Sunday to commemorate all Hungarian soldiers who died for their homeland. Addressing a commemorative event in Vámosújfalu in north-eastern Hungary, Parliamentary Speaker László Kövér said the Hungarian heroes who sacrificed their lives over the past millennium did it not just to defend Hungary but all of Europe.
Saint Thomas Becket Relics Presented At Canterbury Cathedral
- 30 May 2016 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The relics of Saint Thomas Becket (1118- 1170) held in the northern Hungarian town of Esztergom were presented in Canterbury Cathedral on Saturday, the site where he was murdered eight hundred years ago.
Now On: Csernus Memorial Studio, Castle Bazaar
- 31 Mar 2016 9:06 AM
- community & culture
This exhibition pays homage to Tibor Csernus, one of the most important Hungarian painters of the twentieth century, who lived and worked in Paris from the mid-1960s until his death 2007. The memorial Studio is organised by the Gábor Kovács Art Foundation (KOGART) in cooperation with Várgondnokság Kft.
Obama Proud That Hungary’s PM Backed Down On A Public Issue Because Of American Pressure
- 2 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Pressure exerted by the US administration over the Homan statue hindered rather than helped settlement of the issue, the Prime Minister’s Press Office said in a statement on Thursday. US President Barack Obama’s speech on Thursday to mark international Holocaust Memorial Day included remarks about plans in Hungary to erect a statue in honour of Bálint Hóman, the drafter of WW2-era anti-Jewish ...
Orbán: Invasions Of Hungary Brought Suffering
- 20 Jan 2016 2:48 AM
- current affairs
Every invasion of Hungary, whether it was from the west or the east, led to suffering, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said addressing a church commemoration in Budaörs, outside Budapest, to remember Hungary’s ethnic Germans who were expelled from the country after the second world war. Orbán said 20th-century history shows that whenever Hungary lost its independence, the state robbed and cast away ...
Festival This Weekend To Commemorate 1566 Siege Of Szigetvár
- 4 Aug 2016 2:45 AM
- community & culture
A festival commemorating the 450th anniversary of the Ottoman siege and the heroic defence of the fortress of Szigetvár will be held in the southern Hungarian town on Friday and Saturday.
Hungarian State Opera Announces 2016/17 Hungarian Season
- 15 Jul 2016 9:06 AM
- community & culture
The Hungarian State Opera is again offering more than 2000 programmes in the new season. The Hungarian Season will feature pieces by countless major Hungarian composers, choreographers and directors. In addition to the 28 opera and ballet premieres being added to the enormous classical repertoire, the season will also include a steady stream of musicals, grand operettas, concerts, talk programmes ...
Expulsion Of Germans One Of “Darkest Chapters” In Hungarian History, Says State Secretary
- 13 Jun 2016 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The expulsion of ethnic Germans from Hungary from the end of WWII was one of the “darkest chapters of Hungarian history,” a state secretary at the prime minister’s office said in Bonyhád, in southern Hungary, on Saturday. Árpád Potápi addressed the unveiling ceremony of a plaque for those Germans who were forced from their homes in Bonyhád and other localities in Tolna county.
Treasures From Saint Martin’s Birth Land Shown In Szombathely
- 3 Jun 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
An archaeological exhibition unique of its kind is to be open within the framework of Saint Martin’s Memorial Year in Pannonhalma and Szombathely. The collection – boasting an array of famous archaeological finds and numerous gold objects, among them one item of the Nagyszentmiklós hoard – presents a period of nearly five centuries of Pannonia, Saint Martin’s land of birth, providing also an ...
Hungary Marks Heroes’ Day
- 30 May 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Ceremonies were held throughout the country on Sunday to commemorate all Hungarian soldiers who died for their homeland. Addressing a commemorative event in Vámosújfalu in north-eastern Hungary, Parliamentary Speaker László Kövér said the Hungarian heroes who sacrificed their lives over the past millennium did it not just to defend Hungary but all of Europe.
Saint Thomas Becket Relics Presented At Canterbury Cathedral
- 30 May 2016 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The relics of Saint Thomas Becket (1118- 1170) held in the northern Hungarian town of Esztergom were presented in Canterbury Cathedral on Saturday, the site where he was murdered eight hundred years ago.
Now On: Csernus Memorial Studio, Castle Bazaar
- 31 Mar 2016 9:06 AM
- community & culture
This exhibition pays homage to Tibor Csernus, one of the most important Hungarian painters of the twentieth century, who lived and worked in Paris from the mid-1960s until his death 2007. The memorial Studio is organised by the Gábor Kovács Art Foundation (KOGART) in cooperation with Várgondnokság Kft.
Obama Proud That Hungary’s PM Backed Down On A Public Issue Because Of American Pressure
- 2 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Pressure exerted by the US administration over the Homan statue hindered rather than helped settlement of the issue, the Prime Minister’s Press Office said in a statement on Thursday. US President Barack Obama’s speech on Thursday to mark international Holocaust Memorial Day included remarks about plans in Hungary to erect a statue in honour of Bálint Hóman, the drafter of WW2-era anti-Jewish ...
Orbán: Invasions Of Hungary Brought Suffering
- 20 Jan 2016 2:48 AM
- current affairs
Every invasion of Hungary, whether it was from the west or the east, led to suffering, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said addressing a church commemoration in Budaörs, outside Budapest, to remember Hungary’s ethnic Germans who were expelled from the country after the second world war. Orbán said 20th-century history shows that whenever Hungary lost its independence, the state robbed and cast away ...