INTRODUCTION TO HUNGARIAN
PHILATELY
Prince Rákóczi
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“Born in Transylvania, then a part of Hungary, not only a
great hero but a master strategist, a statesman; an artist and
writer. For eight consecutive years he fought for the constitutional
and civil rights of the common people; twice declined to accept the
throne of Poland, and at the end of the revolution he preferred
exile rather than to live under a foreign rule. Is body and that of
his beloved mother, were returned and placed in the cathedral of
Kassa (not Kosice in Slovakia) in 1906, but by the Treaty of
Trianon, Kassa and the upper part of Hungary was ceded to
Czechoslovakia, while his beloved Transylvania was annexed to
Romania.”
REFERENCE: Zinsmeister, Marian Carne, Hungarian
Stamps and Their Background 1871 – 1940, Albany,
1948
Another integral part of the Carpathian Basin is the
so-called "Upland" (the present-day Slovakia) which historically
forms a cultural entity with Hungary. It was in this region that
Prince Rákóczi's War of Independence (1703--1711) was mainly fought
against Austrian absolutism. Slovakians, too, fought
enthusiastically on the side of the Hungarians under Prince
Rákóczi's banner, the two ethnic groups showing conspicuous
solidarity. Many Slovaks also supported the 1848-49 Revolution
organized by the Hungarian patriot Louis Kossuth.
REFERENCE:
Endre Csapó :
Peace to end Peace, A Hungarian Dilemma Excerpts from a
publication on the Treaty of Trianon in 1990 by the Human
Rights Committee of the Hungarian Council of New South
Wales.
http://www.hungary.com/corvinus/lib/csapo/csapo07.htm
The world famous Tokaj wine made in the
Hungarian Tokaj region, was originally Rákóczi's. In 1715, his
famous Szarvas vineyard became Crown Property. Read about this HERE
and HERE.
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