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The origins of the First World War (1914-18) are many and varied, with some even dating back several decades, but a political assassination in the Balkans in the summer of 1914 was the spark that blew up Europe's political powder keg, that...

Sigismund of Hungary (l. 1368-1437), painting by a Bohemian artist, formerly attributed to Pisanello, 1433. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914) in the Balkans in the summer of 1914 set off a chain of events that led to the First World War (1914-18). For over a decade before, imperialistic governments, a fierce arms race, rising...

The Mongol invasion of Hungary (1241 CE) in Chronica Hungarorum by Johannes de Thurocz (1488 CE).

An aerial view of Eszterháza Palace, Hungary, first built in the 1760s by Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy ‘the Magnificent’ (l. 1714-1790). (Daniel Somogyi-Tóth, www.legifotok.hu)

A Roman epigraphic stone found in the ancient town of Brigetio, which was located in the Roman province of Pannonia superior. (This is present-day Komárom, Hungary.) Transcription: D(is) M(anibus) / C(aio) Iul(io) Candidiano / q(ui...

An Ottoman court artist's impression of the Hungarian King John Sigismund Szapolyai (r. 1540-1551 CE; 1556-1570 CE) paying homage to the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I the Magnificient (r. 1520-1566 CE), in 1556 CE at Zemun (part of modern-day...

The alliance system in Europe was one of the causes of the First World War (1914-18), although it did not make war inevitable. In the first decade of the 20th century, the Triple Entente powers of Great Britain, France, and Russia stood against...

The Paris Peace Conference, held from January 1919 to January 1920 and attended by the victorious Allied powers, debated and agreed the terms of the peace settlement that formally ended the First World War (1914-18). As four empires were...

Batu Khan (l. 1205-1255 CE) was a grandson of Genghis Khan and the founder of the Golden Horde. Batu was a skilled Mongol military commander and won battles from China to Persia, although his most famous exploits involve the grand Mongol...