Is 2026 the New 1956? The Suez Crisis, which has its 70th anniversary this year, is probably one of the most well-known events in history. Briefly, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, who consolidated his power in Egypt after the revolution led by the Free Officers (July 23-26, 1952) and was gaining more and more influence internationally, for example by the Non-Aligned Movement on which he worked together with Yugoslavian President and Prime Minister Yosip Broz Tito and Indian Prime

The Mohács Disaster of 1526 and the Parallel Dramas of 1956 This year two topics were chosen as the main themes of the daily compilations on the Facebook site. One of them the Battle of Mohács, which became one of the biggest disaster of the Hungarian history. (I would like to say thank you to Dr. Richárd Bottlik and his team, whose website I could use; about their new book you can read here) We left Istanbul with Suleiman I (1520-1566) on April 23, 1526 and followed him as h

According to the tradition, the Battle of Mohács is the real national disaster what can happen to a nation. And, of course, as a national disaster it is controversial and it has been sparking debates again and again. Briefly, there are two main versions. The first, along the lines of the tradition, says, that after the death of King (Hunyadi) I. Mátyás (Matthias Corvinus or Matthias I; reigned 1458-1490) the greedy and factious magnates, prelates and noblemen took advantage o

If there were a date what every Hungarian knows by heart from childhood, it is, most probably, 1526 – some others are, probably, 1956 , 1920 , 1848-49 , and 1241 . The year of the Battle of Mohács or “mohácsi vész” – “disaster or catastrophe of Mohács” – in Hungarian tradition remarks a turning point not only in the history of the Hungarians, but the history of the region. However, the causalities can be and are debated, some think the importance of the battle is overrated –

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