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Timișoara in 1656, a map by Nicolas Sanson. Note the crescent moons on towers characteristic of cities during the Ottoman era. The fall of Belgrade in 1521 and the defeat at Mohács in 1526 caused the division of the Hungarian Kingdom in three parts, and Banat became the object of contention between the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary and Ottomans ...
Gyulafehérvár (present-day Alba Iulia), from 1542 to 1570, royal residence and the capital of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (it was also the centre of the latter Principality of Transylvania) Buda, from 1783 to 1873 [9] Debrecen, in 1849 and in 1944 [10] (during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and at the end of World War II)
1849 – Between April 26 and August 8, Timișoara is sieged by Hungarian revolutionary forces (the longest siege of the town). 1852 – Timișoara is linked with Vienna through the telegraph line. This is the first line in the territory of present-day Romania. 1855 – February 9: Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata" opening night in Timișoara.
Timiș (Romanian pronunciation:) is a county of western Romania on the border with Hungary and Serbia, in the historical region of Banat, with the county seat at Timișoara. It is the westernmost and the largest county in Romania in terms of land area.
The Palace of Culture houses the Gergely Csiky Hungarian State Theatre, the German State Theatre, the Mihai Eminescu National Theatre and the Romanian National Opera. Cultural centres [ edit ]
Freidorf (German for "free village"; Hungarian: Szabadfalu) [2] was one of the first German settlements in Temes County in the Banat, Kingdom of Hungary.In 1920, it became part of Romania; since 1950 it is a district of the city of Timișoara, located on the southwest outskirts of the city.
Tabula Hungariae (also Lázár's map [1]) is the earliest surviving printed map of Hungary, which has supposedly been made by Hungarian Lázár deák before 1528. It was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2007. [2]
Variaș is first mentioned in a papal tithe document from 1333–1335 of the Catholic Diocese of Cenad, which states that Worias is a Hungarian village with a regulated Catholic parish. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Variaș was a royal estate (of the Hungarian crown) until 1381, when it became the property of Petrus and Nicolaus Maczedoniay.