![]() ![]() The book can be a nice gift for Christmas to your friends who do not speak the Hungarian language but perhaps they would like to read about it in an entertaining manner. Please, receive my book with a good heart because there are not many similar books which try to make the most heroic part of the Hungarian history popular in the English language. ![]() The Battle of Mezőkeresztes, 1596 on a Turkish miniature The legends and the battles were written as short history-fiction stories, based on the traceable facts.Īlso, I have included some pictures into this e-book but you can find more if you visit my Facebook page, the „Hungaries-1632″ where more information can be found about the castles and the historical period. I described the history of these castles from the beginning until the 18th century and added a particular legend or battle, a siege that can be associated with the place. I gave the modern names and the GPS coordinates as well so as to find them easier on new maps because these fabulous places are worth visiting. Their old Hungarian name is commonly used in the stories and in their historical descriptions but The westernmost castle of them is Dévény Castle which is located in Slovakia, near to the Austrian border while the easternmost is Munkács Castle which is now in Ukraine. In this book, I have chosen thirty-three castles from those which used to guard the northern part of the Hungarian Kingdom against the Ottoman Empire. These countries are Austria, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia and of course, Hungary. All these castles used to be part either of the Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia or Transylvania but now they can be found in eight different modern countries which presently share the Carpathian Basin. Many of them will be described in the coming series, including the major battles and sieges in their proximity. There are hundreds of wonderful castles from the Croatian seaside of the Adriatic Sea through the Trans-Danubian Region up to the northern Carpathian Mountains. In order to describe some battles and sieges in a more entertaining manner, sometimes I tried to apply the rules of the historical fiction, adding details from my own imagination. Some of them are just fairy tales or family-legends, made up by the imagination of the next generations but there is always a little truth in them. The stories of my book are based on the records of contemporary historians and on the tales of the local folks. They have witnessed smaller or bigger raids, battles and sieges, have seen many cowardice, bloodshed and cruelty. There are many beautiful castles and many ruins on hilltops with stories and legends attached to them all along this long frontier. This wonderous Frontier was the longest structure of defense system of Europe which had worked for the longest period, partly financed and maintained by the Austrian Habsburgs and by the Hungarian nobles and by the warriors called the Valiant Order. ![]()
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