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The city of Budapest was officially created on 17 November 1873 from a merger of the three neighboring cities of Pest, Buda and Óbuda. Smaller towns on the outskirts of the original city were amalgamated into Greater Budapest in 1950. The origins of Budapest can be traced to Celts who occupied the plains of Hungary in the 4th
[1] [2] 1244 - Created a royal free city by Bela IV. [2] 1248 - King Béla IV builds the first royal castle on Castle Hill, Buda. [1] The new town adopts the name of Buda from the earlier one (present day Óbuda). Pest is surrounded by city walls. [2] 1255 - Matthias Church reconstruction begins. [2] 1265 - Buda Castle first completed. [2]
Budapest, which is both a city and municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of 7,626 square kilometres (2,944 square miles) and a population of 3,303,786. It is a primate city , constituting 33% of the population of Hungary.
Margaret Island is an island that is directly administered by the Municipality of Budapest (used to be part of District XIII) and is used as a recreational area There is a third island called Óbuda Island ( Óbudai-sziget ) which forms parts of District III and hosts the Sziget Festival since 1993.
Pest was administratively unified with Buda and Óbuda in 1873; prior to this, it was an independent city. In colloquial Hungarian, "Pest" is sometimes also used pars pro toto to refer to Budapest as a whole. Comprising about two-thirds of the city's area, Pest is flatter and much more heavily urbanized than Buda.
Created by Hungary's national statistical office HCSO to describe suburban development around centres of urban growth, the surrounding a more densely built and densely populated urban area. As of 2014 the Budapest metropolitan area, with its 7,626 km 2 (2,944 sq mi), extends significantly beyond Budapest's administrative region (encompasses 193 ...
A sign showing twin towns of Zalaegerszeg Map of Hungary. This is a list of municipalities in Hungary which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
By attaching 7 towns and 16 villages to the former Budapest, its area enlarged from 207 km 2 to 525 km 2 (154%), the number of its inhabitants increased from 1.05 million to 1.6 million (52%), and the number of the districts augmented from 14 to 22 (57%), thus becoming the seventh metropolis of Europe in its time.