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	Hungary - MSN Encarta
		In the late 9th century, led by Árpád, they conquered the plain between the Danube and Tisza rivers, the central part of the Hungarian Plain.
		The grazing areas of the Hungarian Plain are called the puszta, derived from a Slavic word meaning “wasteland.” The 19th-century life of cowboys and their herds on the puszta is commemorated in Hungarian folksongs, dances, and literature.
		Mountains rim the plains on the west and on the north and east.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761559741 (835 words)

	Hungary - MSN Encarta
		Duck, heron, crane, and stork are native to the country, and the Great Hungarian Plain, which is mostly steppe, is a resting spot for many migrating species.
		The alluvial soils of the Great Hungarian Plain are highly fertile, although inferior to the fl earth in the southeastern and southern plain extending into Romania, Serbia, and Croatia.
		Canals irrigate the Great Hungarian Plain, which is subject to drought.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559741_2/Hungary.html (708 words)

	Unasylva - No. 88 - Forest tree improvement in Hungary
		In the course of plantings done An the great Hungarian plain (Alföld) which was almost totally devoid of trees 150 to 200 years ago, the spread of fl locust was so great that it now occupies 15.9 percent of the country's total forest area.
		The plan for Hungarian seed orchards was from the beginning based on the idea that the most promising trees from the best forest stands growing in characteristic conifer regions should be thoroughly examined, and that large-scale seed orchards should be established from those trees which proved appropriate on the basis of a range of tests.
		Hungarian forest tree improvement work and the experimental seed production in orchards were studied in September 1966 by a working group of Section 22 of IUFRO led by Mr.
	www.fao.org /docrep/68738e/68738e04.htm (2703 words)

	Origin of Hungarians
		This short summary of Hungarian history (especially with regards to their origin and early record) departs from the officially held position generally taught in schools and found in Encyclopedias which continues to suggest that the Hungarian people belong to the Finno-Ugric branch of the planet’s family tree.
		Mater in Latin, Mutter in German, Mother in English and nagy-mama (grand-mother) in the Hungarian language seem to indicate that the symbol in question represents motherhood: the mother goddess in the fertility culture.
		Exhibit 12: Headdress of the Hungarian maiden and that of the Scythian Queen
	www.chicagohungarians.com /radics/Origin1.htm (3980 words)

	Hungary
		The center of the northeastern part of the Great Plains is the city of Debrecen, together with the nearby Hortobágy, while that in the south is the city of Szeged.
		To his great surprise, the Hungarians now claimed the land for the horse, the rivers for the saddle, and the luscious green grass of plains for the harness.
		Attila was buried in a threefold gold-silver-iron tomb in the Tisza.
	www.csinszka.com /hungary.htm (5171 words)

	Great Hungarian Plain, Hungarian travel packages, Budapest discount hotels
		Complementing the predominantly rural character of the Plain are museums, theaters, universities and churches in towns and cities, such as Szeged, Kecskemét and Debrecen.
		This colossal panoramic painting depicts the arrival of the Hungarian settlers in the Carpathian Basin.
		The Hungarian Plain is ideal for horseback riding, hot air ballooning, bicycling, horse-drawn carriage rides, rafting on the Tisza River, and other sporting activities.
	www.gotohungary.com /budapest/hungarianplain.shtml (365 words)

	HUNGARY (Hungarian Mag... - Online Information article about HUNGARY (Hungarian Mag...
		Suess, during which the Hungarian plain was covered by the sea, and the deposits were purely marine.
		The great Alfold and the western districts are the most densely populated parts, whereas the northern and eastern mountainous counties are sparsely inhabited.
		This great emigration movement is the more serious in view of the very slow increase of the population through excess of births over deaths.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HOR_I25/HUNGARY_Hungarian_Magyarorszdg_.html (5447 words)

	Satelliteimages
		The Great Hungarian Plain, drained by the Danube and Tisza rivers, occupies a large part of the image.
		Crops growing in the fertile agricultural lowland of the Great Plain are seen in different colours in the image depending on their seasonal evolution.
		The northern part of Slovakia is known for its extensive and impressive mountain range, the Carpathians, while the southwestern part of the country is dominated by the Danubian Lowlands.
	earth.esa.int /cgi-bin/satimgsql.pl?show_url=277 (195 words)

	Hungary Travel Southern Plain Fishing in Hungary National Parks
		The history and the cultivation of the forests of the Great Plain are presented by the Great Plain Afforestation Museum.
		The city's famous son is Erkel Ferenc, composer of the Hungarian national operas, Bánk bán and Hunyadi László, and the music for the Hungarian National Anthem.
		It is the biggest city of the Southern Great Plain, situated at the confluence of the rivers Tisza and Maros.
	www.gotohungary.com /regions/southerngreatplain.shtml (1929 words)

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		Whether they spoke Hungarian or not, whether the name Magyar could be attributed to them or not, their accomplishment stands tall like a flag on the battlefield and their memory is written in gold in Hungarian history.
		Géza died in 997, and István inherited the Hungarian throne.
		It was an attack on the Hungarian culture, and was the beginning of the conflict between the old and new.
	www.chicagohungarians.com /radics/radics.htm (8596 words)

	Hungarian Landscape Painting (1800-1945)
		Hungarian followers of both styles had a significant role in establishing landscape painting in Hungary in the 19th century as the genre did not exist previously.
		One of the most significant episode of Hungarian realist landscape painting is represented by the life-work of László Paál which ended with tragic suddenness.
		Generations of painters of the Great Hungarian Plain produced pictures of strict tempo portraying endless distances, glowing heat and perishing cold of the Great Hungarian Plain with taciturn resoluteness of peasants living there.
	hungart.euroweb.hu /tours/landscap/content.html (1372 words)

	SHP Article 31:3_3
		Starting in 1918, Hungarian stamps were overprinted by Italian, Croatian, Serb, Rumanian, Czecho-Slovak, French, and Austrian authorities, some of whom were representatives of an official government or of a military force or of a postal directorate or just plain village entrepreneurs.
		Also, the Hungarian Red Army had achieved military victories against the Czech in the north, contributed to the establishment of the Slovak Republic of the Councils, and was mobilizing to face the Rumanians moving into the Great Hungarian Plain.
		Hungarian and Austrian postage remnants, having lost their postal validity on 28 February 1919, were collected and overprinted by Czech postal authorities in Prague.
	www.hungarianphilately.org /articles/article31_3_3.htm (4022 words)

	View of the Great Hungarian Plain with Draw Well (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hungarian Steppe, a picture of the same size, is dominated by pale greens with double rainbow that is shining over the steppe lost in the horizon after the rain.
		Landscape with swing pole, a symbol of Hungarian landscape, appeared in patriotic poetry of Sándor Petőfi and János Arany, and in paintings of Miklós Barabás and Markó Jun., in 1838.
		The Hungarian steppe as a symbol from the very beginning expresses lazy barrenness, hopeless monotony of the Hungarian waste land on the one hand, and the unbreakable longing of Hungarians for freedom on the other.
	www.hung-art.hu /tours/landscap/alfoldi.html (252 words)

	Great Hungarian Plain - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Great Hungarian Plain - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Great Hungarian Plain (Hungarian, Nagy Alföld), also Great Alföld or Alföld, fertile agricultural lowland, eastern Europe, in central and...
		Vojvodina is situated in the southern part of the Great Hungarian Plain and includes some of the richest agricultural land in the former Yugoslavia....
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Great_Hungarian_Plain.html (101 words)

	Hungary's on line guide-The Great Plain (Alföld)-Introduction
		The Great Plain and Puszta are the setting for much of Hungarian folklore and literature.
		The Hungarian puszta, the distant relative of the prairies, pampa and steppes, is one of the most popular tourism destinations in Europe and a must in any tour of the country.
		The plain that lies in this region is called the Alföld, the Great Hungarian Plain.
	www.guideviaggi.net /english/gp_introd.htm (404 words)

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		It is of great strategic importance, being 60 miles south-south-west of Lemberg and 150 miles east- south-east of Cracow.
		The Hungarians had throughout been the soul of the defence, and the Hungarian officer was more ready than his Austrian brother to share the hardships of his men.
		The Hungarians fought with the traditional ardour of their race, but they were met with a pitiless, accurate, and sustained fire from the Russian artillery, in face of which they could make no progress.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Przemysl/Przemysl_Text_01.htm (4153 words)

	Opusztaszer National Historical Memorial Park
		According to Anonymus, the famous Hungarian chronicler (12th century), Opusztaszer area was the scene of important historic events.
		In the centre of the mediaeval settlement stood the Monastery of Szer.
		The main attraction of the Memorial Park is the monumental 15x120 metre giant canvas, ‘The arrival of the conquering Hungarians’, painted by Arpad Feszty and his contemporary painters.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/hungary_heart_of_europe/82125 (460 words)

	MALÉV - Southern Great Plain
		The southern part of the Great Hungarian Plain (the Alfold) boasts sunlit lands, gastronomic specialities and living, rural traditions.
		The Alföld is very diverse: There are the immense plains between the Danube and Tisza rivers, the forests of Körösök, and the Tisza itself with its rich flood plains and wonderful backwaters.
		The Southern Great Plain stands out for its nature-related tourism: there are ample opportunities for equestrian, spa, health, ecological and river tourism.
	www.malev.hu /BP/ENG/UTTERV_ENG/2003-1113-1506-03UCFG.asp (364 words)

	Ferruginous duck (Aythya nyroca) conservation activities in the Great Hungarian Plain
		There are no concrete information, where is the Hungarian ferruginous duck population wintering, and what is their migration route.
		Hungarian and Italian hunters, whom would be informed and supplied by publications which help the field identification of protected species, to reduce the shooting of protected species.
		We would like to urge the Hungarian Government on the establishing of funds for the supporting and compensation of fish pond owners, because many protected and strictly protected species cause damages in the fish.
	www.nimfea.hu /english/ferruginous.htm (2901 words)

	Lands of Legends - The Hungarian Puszta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Be part of the revival of the 1000-year-old traditions of Hungarian horsemanship.
		The Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld in Hungarian) stretches from the Danube to the country’s eastern border.
		The Hungarian puszta (the word puszta means empty, bare, grassy plain) is a distant relative of the prairies, pampas and steppes - one of the most popular tourism destinations in Europe.
	www.agecon.uga.edu /~wacra/nllands.htm (233 words)

	Farm on the Great Hungarian Plain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was mostly due to his efforts that the most characteristic branch of what is called the Alföld School, depicting the landscape and people of the Great Hungarian Plain, became associated with this town.
		Small farm standing alone in the vast flat land provided the most characteristic form of livelihood in the Alföld; both in literature and in painting, these became the symbols of the life of the Hungarian peasantry, of underdevelopment, of isolation, and of poverty.
		Tornyai painted "Farm on the Great Hungarian Plain" around 1910; in it he depicted the barrenness and despairing tranquility of the small farms by relying on pictorial means which are small in number but powerful in effect, revealing, among other things, the artist's compassion for his subject.
	hungart.euroweb.hu /english/t/tornyai/muvek/1911-20/alfoldi.html (169 words)

	FSU Anthropology - Körös Regional Archaeological Project
		The Neolithic of the Great Hungarian Plain is characterized by a trend towards increasing regional differentiation in ceramic styles, settlement patterning, and resource exploitation.
		The earliest agriculturalists on the Great Hungarian Plain, known as the Körös Culture, appeared sometime during towards the end of the seventh millennium BC (cal.), shortly after the Neolithic became well-established in the southern Balkans.
		In the Great Hungarian Plain, this period is marked by the appearance of incised, linear decoration on open-shaped vessels.
	www.anthro.fsu.edu /research/koros/overview/arch_background/arch_background.html (3691 words)

	Hungary Main Page
		To the west is Lake Balatan and to the east, the Great Plain with its wide vistas.
		As much as 50 % of the country's territory is flat: the Great Hungarian Plain occupies the entire eastern part of the country and the Small Plain lies along the north-west border.
		The Hungarian "puszta" (plain) is a favourite tourist destination where the characteristic animals and ethnographic traditions can be seen in the Hortobágy National Park (HORTOBÁGY) and in the Kiskunság National Park (BUGAC, APAJPUSZTA, LAJOSMIZSE) when the horse shows are held.
	www.travelvantage.com /hung.html (576 words)

	Pannonian plain (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.csres.utexas.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		map of Pannonian plain The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
		The former Hungarian Kingdom was centered around the plain and included almost all of it.
		Today the plain is divided among Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Romania, Ukraine and Serbia and Montenegro.
	pannonian-plain.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (355 words)

	Hungary
		The largest vegetable growing areas are situated between the rivers Danube and Tisza, in the South, and in the north-eastern part of the Great Hungarian Plain.
		The main fruit producing regions as well as the main fruit crops are the following: north-eastern Great Hungarian Plain and south-western borderland (apples), Danube-Tisza region (apricots, cherries, sour cherries): the Danube-bend and the hilly countryside of North- and West Hungary (soft or small fruits): the environs of Buda and Szeged (peaches).
		The Hungarian Society for Agricultural Science has an individual Horticultural Section and several branches of horticulture are represented in the various sections of the Society.
	www.hridir.org /countries/hungary/index.htm (793 words)

	One Must Also Be Hungarian by Adam Biro, an excerpt
		Hungarian along with Finish and Estonian (and some Siberian languages) make up the Fino-Ugric language family, and along with Basque, which defies classification, are the only European languages that do not belong to the Indo-European group.
		The Hungarian people, only ten million strong, created an extraordinary literature with their language that is so rich, expressive, and melodious.
		However, anti-Semitism rapidly grew to major proportions and during World War II, Eichmann was able to perpetrate his harm with the support of the authorities, the police, and, it has to be said, with the indifference and often with the collaboration of the population.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/052125.html (1801 words)

	Hungary - Landscape and Climate
		The Great Hungarian Plain, or Nagyalföld, lies east of the Danube and covers almost half the area of Hungary.
		The people of the Great Plain are known for their horses and their riding skills.
		n the centre of the Great Plain is an area known as the Hortobágy Puszta, a region of flat grassland which has inspired many Hungarian poets and artists.
	www.cp-pc.ca /english/hungary/landclim.html (351 words)

	Oradea, Romania: Beauty and History - SkyscraperCity
		During the Hungarian Liberation Fight of 1848, the largest Hungarian military factory and depot was in Nagyvárad.
		The great Hungarian warrior-king was canonized in 1192, for the expansion of Christianity in Hungary, making it a general, nation-wide religion.
		This bust was made by Hungarian goldsmith Fülöp Link, in 1892, in preparation for the 1000th anniversary of the Hungarian Conquest, 896 of Transylvania (another bust, with his head-relic, is in the cathedral of Gyor, Hungary).
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=248485 (684 words)

	Great Hungarian Plain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the largest part of the Pannonian plain.
		The most important Hungarian writers inspired by and associated with the Alföld are Ferenc Móra and Zsigmond Móricz as well as the poets Sándor Petőfi and Gyula Juhász.
		Among the Hungarian scientists born in the Alföld are Zoltán Bay physicist, János Irinyi chemist, inventor of the noiseless match, János Kabay pharmacologist, Gábor Kátai physician and pharmacist and Frigyes Korányi physician and pulmonologist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Alf%C3%B6ld (348 words)

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