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  2. Elizabeth Báthory - Wikipedia

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    Ecsed, the lake and the old castle. Elizabeth was born in 1560 on a family estate in Nyírbátor, Royal Hungary, and spent her childhood at Ecsed Castle. Her father was Baron George VI Báthory (d. 1570), of the Ecsed branch of the family, brother of Andrew Bonaventura Báthory (d. 1566), who had been ruling Voivode of Transylvania.

  3. Báthory family - Wikipedia

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    Gabriel Báthory, the younger brother of Stephen XII, was the last male member of the Ecsed line. It is unclear whether he died before or after his sisters Elizabeth and Sophia. Elizabeth Báthory (died 1614), daughter of George VI and through her mother, niece of the Polish King Stephen Báthory. Descendant of both the Ecsed and Somlyó ...

  4. Elizabeth Báthory in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The 2007 Brazilian novel O Legado de Bathory by Alexandre Heredia. Finnish detective novel 2008 Unkarilainen taulu ("The Hungarian Painting") by Mikko Karppi. Bathory: Memoir of a Countess (2008) is a novel by A. Mordeaux. Hungarian novella Én, Báthory Erzsébet (I, Elizabeth Báthory) by Mária P. Szabó (2010).

  5. Čachtice Castle - Wikipedia

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    The castle was a residence and later the prison of the Countess and alleged serial killer Elizabeth Báthory. [1] Čachtice was built in the mid-13th century by Kazimir from the Hont-Pázmány gens as a sentry on the road to Moravia. Later, it belonged to Matthew Csák, the Stibor family, and then to Elizabeth

  6. Nagyecsed - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Báthory was raised in the town's now ruined castle. Her main residence and later her prison was Csejte Castle, Upper Hungary, now in Slovakia, but she was buried in the family crypt at Ecsed. The town's castle was demolished in the eighteenth century after the Kuruc uprisings. Ecsed, the lake and the old castle

  7. ‘Sahar Speaks’ by Huffington Post

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    There is no one better to tell the story of womenhood in Afghanistan than the women themselves

  8. The Countess (film) - Wikipedia

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    It is based on the life of the notorious Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory. The film is the third directorial effort by Delpy, who has said of the project that "it sounds like a gothic [story] but it's more a drama. It's more focusing on the psychology of human beings when they're given power." [1]

  9. More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.