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	Louis XVIII - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Louis Stanislas-Xavier, comte de Provence, third son of the dauphin Louis, son of Louis XV., and of Maria Josepha of Saxony, was born at Versailles on the 17th of November 1755.
		The town is very generally illuminated, and I understand from men who have traversed the principal streets that every demonstration of joy was manifested by the inhabitants." 3 It is as yet not proved that Blacas returned from his embassy in response to a summons from the Ultras.
		In the absence of Decazes a new favourite was found to amuse the king's old age, Madame du Cayla (Zoe Talon, comtesse du Cayla), a protegee of the vicomte Sosthene de la Rochefoucauld and consequently a creature of the Ultras.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Louis_XVIII (2418 words)

	Hungary - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hungary borders on Slovakia in the north, on Ukraine in the northeast, on Romania in the east, on Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia in the south, and on Austria in the west.
		After the death of Louis I, a series of foreign rulers succeeded: Sigismund (later Holy Roman Emperor), son-in-law of Louis; Albert II of Austria, son-in-law of Sigismund; and Ladislaus III of Poland (Uladislaus I of Hungary).
		Louis II was defeated and killed by the Turks under Sulayman the Magnificent in the battle of Mohács in 1526.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-hungary.html (3436 words)

	Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis was the son of Ladislaus V Jagiełło and his fourth wife, Anne de Foix.
		In 1522 Louis II was married to Maria of Austria, a Habsburg princess, granddaughter of Maximilian I, as stipulated by an Imperial congress at Vienna in 1515.
		Louis died at the Battle of Mohács in 1526.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_II_of_Hungary_and_Bohemia (258 words)

	Louis I of Hungary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis became king of Hungary in 1342 at the death of his father.
		He was the son of Charles I, King of Hungary, and was the head of the Angevin minor branch (Anjou-Sicily) and a member of the Capetian royal dynasty.
		Louis' mother was Elisabeth of Poland, daughter of Ladislaus the Short, and sister of Casimir III the Great, King of Poland and the last ruler of Piast dynasty, who died 1370.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_I_of_Hungary (676 words)

	Hungary. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Hungary borders on Slovakia in the north, on Ukraine in the northeast, on Romania in the east, on Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia and Montenegro in the south, and on Austria in the west.
		Hungary has long been an agricultural country, but since World War II it has become heavily industrialized.
		Hungary was proclaimed a People’s Republic in 1949, after parliamentary elections in which there was only a single slate of candidates.
	www.bartleby.com /65/hu/Hungary.html (3173 words)

	Hungary Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
		Hungary borders on Slovakia in the N, on Ukraine in the NE, on Romania in the E, on Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia in the S, and on Austria in the W. The Danube River forms the Slovak-Hungarian border from near Bratislava to near Esztergom, then turns sharply S and bisects the country.
		Under his son, Louis I (Louis the Great), Hungary reached its greatest territorial extension, with power extending into Dalmatia, the Balkans, and, through the joint kingship of Louis, into Poland.
		The president of Hungary as well as the presidential council are elected by the 368-member legislative body known as the national assembly, whose members are elected directly for four-year terms.
	www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Hungary.html (2280 words)

	Banaters Around the World
		King Louis was killed defending Hungarian territory against the Turks (Ottoman Empire) at the Battle of Mohacs in 1526.
		Revised final boundaries for Hungary were formed at the Treaty of Trianon in June, 1920, and this resulted in the loss of two-thirds of her former territory.
		The eventual result of the emigration of the Danube Swabians from Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia is the disappearance of their cultural influence in the region.
	www.banaters.com /banat/clarkson.asp?category=history (3828 words)

	Bl. Louis of Thuringia
		Blessed Louis of Thuringia was the mate of one of the greatest of lay women saints, Elizabeth of Hungary.
		Louis (Ludwig) was born in 1200, the eldest son of County Herman I of Thuringia.
		Louis had got no farther than Otranto, Italy, when he was stricken with a mortal fever.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id553.htm (695 words)

	Hungary - Reign of Ulaszlo II and Louis II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hungary - Reign of Ulaszlo II and Louis II Reign of Ulaszlo II and Louis II Hungary Table of Contents
		The Tripartitum gave Hungary's king and nobles, or magnates, equal shares of power: the nobles recognized the king as superior, but in turn the nobles had the power to elect the king.
		Hungary was in a state of near anarchy under the magnates' rule.
	countrystudies.us /hungary/10.htm (616 words)

	End of Europe's Middle Ages - Eastern Europe
		By the time of Louis I's death in 1382, the Crown had direct control of about 15 per cent of the towns and castles, a percentage equal to that of the Church, and the balance was divided amongst the nobles and the gentry.
		However, Louis I's widow, Elizabeth of Bosnia (c.1340-1387), had other ideas and seized control of both kingdoms during the minority of her children.
		Eventually the issue was settled and Louis I's daughter Jadwiga (1374-1399), ascended to the Polish throne.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/eastern.html (2050 words)

	MohÃ¡cs - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mohács is best known for the crushing defeat (Aug. 29, 1526) there of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia by Sulayman I of Turkey.
		Hungary was ill-prepared for the attack, and when Louis hastily tried to unite Hungary and Christendom behind him, only the pope sent help.
		The king and almost 25,000 of his army were killed in the battle; the rest were taken captive and massacred.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mohacs.html (183 words)

	CHAPTER 1 OF HUNGARIAN AND THEIR COMMUNITIES IN CLEVELAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hungary's first gold florins were minted in 1325 and throughout Europe this stable currency based on gold was in great demand.
		Louis was a true patron of the arts; magnificent castles were erected at Buda, Visegrád and Diósgyor.
		Hungary's preparedness in combatting the Turks was largely due to Sigismund's successor, János Hunyadi, a brilliant strategist and soldier who used his personal power, wealth and prestige to secure the country's defense.
	clevelandmemory.org /Hungarians/pg018.htm (1239 words)

	Louis II (of Hungary and Bohemia) - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Louis II (of Hungary and Bohemia), in Hungarian, Lajos II (1506-1526), King of Hungary (1516-1526) and Bohemia (1509-1526), son and successor of...
		Ferdinand III (Holy Roman Empire) (1608-1657), Holy Roman Emperor (1637-1657), King of Hungary (1625-1657), and King of Bohemia (1627-1657), born in...
		Rudolf II (1552-1612), Holy Roman emperor (1576-1612), King of Hungary (1572-1608), and King of Bohemia (1575-1611), born in Vienna, the son and...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Louis_II_(of_Hungary_and_Bohemia).html (171 words)

	AllRefer.com - Louis II, king of Hungary and Bohemia (Austria And Hungary, History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Louis II 1506–26, king of Hungary and Bohemia (1516–26), son and successor of Uladislaus II.
		The Hungarian army was destroyed, and Louis was killed.
		Through the marriage treaty concluded by his father (see Uladislaus II) the crowns of Hungary and Bohemia passed to Louis's brother-in-law, Ferdinand of Hapsburg (later Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I), but Hungary fell under Ottoman rule.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Louis2Hun.html (254 words)

	Hungary: History
		Andrew II to grant the Golden Bull (the “Magna Carta of Hungary”), which limited the king's power to alienate his authority to the magnates and established the beginnings of a parliament.
		Ladislaus IV, Hungary fell into anarchy, and when the royal line of Arpad died out (1301) with Andrew III, the magnates seized the opportunity to increase their authority.
		Louis II was defeated and killed by the Turks under Sulayman the Magnificent in the battle of
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0858706.html (2243 words)

	Hungary - History
		Hungary is a country that hasn't enjoyed much independence.
		And for as long as there was foreign rule in Hungary, there were Hungarians fighting against it.
		In Stephen's Hungary, there were two classes of people: Noblemen, who were direct descendants of the Magyars, and "unfree" people.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_Geography_211_1.html (305 words)

	Eastern Europe History - The First Millenium
		His nephew, Louis I of Hungary, was elected king creating an empire that stretched from the Baltic to the Adriatic.
		Hungary was split into three parts - Royal Hungary, a narrow sliver of land ruled by the Austrian Habsburgs - Turkish Hungary, including the city of Buda - Transylvania in the mountains.
		As in Hungary, the nobles were increasing their strength and independence in Poland.
	www.biega.com /history15.html (1153 words)

	St. Louis of Toulouse - Saint of the Day - American Catholic
		Louis was related to St. Louis IX on his father’s side and to Elizabeth of Hungary on his mother’s side.
		When he was 14, Louis and two of his brothers were taken as hostages to the king of Aragon’s court as part of a political deal involving Louis’s father.
		Louis set aside 75 percent of his income as bishop to feed the poor and maintain churches.
	www.americancatholic.org /Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1105 (520 words)

	Hungary and the limits of Habsburg authority
		Hungary is as Central European as it is Balkan, but Transylvania and Croatia were parts of royal Hungary and it is impossible to make sense out of their history without knowing something of Hungary.
		Except in Hungary, the German language became a compulsory subject in all schools, and the only language for the conduct of university instruction, administration, the law and the army.
		They consisted of the so-called "bene possessionati" (those with middle sized holdings), and their allies the poor "sandal wearing" nobles for whom legal claims of nobility were the only way to avoid sinking into the mass of rural peasants.
	www.lib.msu.edu /sowards/balkan/lecture4.html (4059 words)

	Central Europe Review - Hungary News Review
		Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel praised Hungary's unity with NATO during the bombing of its southern neighbour, and highlighted the stabilising role Hungary plays in the region.
		In his lecture Jozsef Szajer, Chairman of the Hungarian Parliament's European Integration Committee, stressed the lasting damage Communism caused in terms of civil society, but said that Hungary's living standard was closer to EU than that of Spain and Portugal at the time of their accession.
		Meanwhile, Hungary is urging the European Union to clear the bombed bridges which are blocking the Danube at Novi Sad/Ujvidek.
	www.ce-review.org /99/19/hungarynews19.html (1307 words)

	AllRefer.com - Louis Kossuth (Austria And Hungary, History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Kossuth, a fiery orator, was one of the principal figures of the Hungarian revolution of Mar., 1848.
		His principles were liberal, but his nationalism was opposed to the fulfillment of the national aspirations of the Slavic, Romanian, and German minorities in Hungary and was particularly resented in Croatia.
		The Hungarians won several victories, but in 1849, Russian troops intervened in favor of Austria, and Kossuth was obliged to resign the government to General GOrgey.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kossuth.html (414 words)

	Pécs, Hungary
		After the Hungarians conquered the area of modern-day Hungary (late 9th–early 10th century) and founded the comitatus Baranya, the capital of the comitatus was not Pécs but a nearby castle, Baranyavár ("Baranya Castle".) Pécs, however, became an important religious centre and episcopal seat.
		The army led by Louis of Baden occupied the city on October 14, and destroyed the aqueduct leading to the castle.
		The University of Pécs was founded by Louis I of Hungary in 1367.
	creekin.net /c3958-n83-p-cs-hungary.html (1682 words)

	1370
		Louis of Hungary, St. Jadviga, and Ladislaus Yagiello
		Ludwig resided mostly in Hungary while the Kingdom of Poland was run by his mother and the sister of Kazimierz Wielki, Elzbieta Lokietowna (Elizabeth), acting as regent.
		During his reign, Ludwig generally put the interests of his native Hungary in front of those of Poland - for example, incorporating the previously Polish Rus Halicko-Wlodzimierska (Ruthenia of Galich and Vladimir) into the Kingdom of Hungary.
	www.econ.ucdavis.edu /graduate/rsszulga/1370-1434.htm (1100 words)

	Louis I of Hungary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Louis the Great Louis I (the Great), Ludwik W&281;gierski (1326 - 1382) became king of Hungary in 1342.
		He was the son of Charles I, king of Hungary, and was related to both the Angevin and Capetian royal families.
		Louis' mother was Elizabeth, the daughter of Ladislaus the Short, the sister of Casimir III the Great, king of Poland.
	louis-i-of-hungary.iqnaut.net (149 words)

	[No title]
		Louis Dudek, one of Canada's major modernist poets, poetry activists, polemicists, a founding member of the League of Canadian Poets, a member of the Order of Canada -- and perhaps the greatest advocate of local emerging talent in anglophone Quebec -- has died, age 83.
		Louis Dudek was the mentor of many, like his own mentor Pound, and was responsible for the early publication and recognition of poets Leonard Cohen and Daryl Hine.
		Louis Dudek's own poetry was published over a span of six decades, making him, surely, the grand old man of Canadian letters, in so many ways.
	www.cim.mcgill.ca /~dudek/LouisDudek/toddSwift.html (525 words)

	The Ottoman Sultans of Turkey & Successors in Romania
		The conquest of Hungary was the first penetration of Islâm into Francia since the conquest of Spain.
		Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had been swapped back and forth between Hungary and Romania and Serbia in the 12th and 13th centuries, and then were long held by the Turks, ended up with a mixed population of Croats (Latin/Catholic Christians), Serbs (Orthodox Christians), and Moslem Bosnians (Bosniacs).
		Hungary, of course, wanted Transylvania back, but this would have to be at the expense of another German ally, so Hitler compromised by giving Hungary a part (the part with the most Hungarians) of Transylvania, but then compensated România with extra territory in the Ukraine (going off the map).
	www.friesian.com /turkia.htm (12137 words)

	Louis Kossuth: Father of Hungarian Democracy - the American Hungarian Federation, Founded 1906
		AHF's 1st Vice President Frank Koszorus and Louis Segesvary delivered poignant speeches on the life and impact of Kossuth, only the second foreign leader to address a joint session of Congress.
		Kossuth envisioned a federation in the Kingdom of Hungary in which all nationalties participated in a vibrant democratic system based on fundamental democratic principles such as equality and parliamentary representation.
		Hungary was alone again in its fight for democracy in 1956, and didn't gain freedom until 1989.
	www.americanhungarianfederation.org /news_kossuth.htm (1498 words)

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