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Eperjes
Prešov
Eperjes
Hungarian:
Eperjes
Slovak:
Prešov
German:
Eperies, Preschau
Latin:
Fragopolis, Eperiessinum
Historical Hungarian county:
Sáros
Country:
Slovakia
District:
Prešovský kraj
River:
Tarca
Altitude:
250 m
GPS coordinates:
48.997567, 21.240416
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Population
Population:
89k
Hungarian:
0%
Population in 1910
| Total | 16323 |
|---|---|
| Hungarian | 48.86% |
| German | 8.6% |
| Slovak | 39.78% |
Eperjes was once called Athens on the Tarca River because of its high quality education, which began in 1665, when the Lutheran college was founded from the contributions of the Lutherans of Hungary. The school focused on the education of natural sciences and of the mother tongue, the Hungarian. In the 19th century there were a grammar school and a college with faculties of low, theology and teacher training in the town. Several famous Hungarians learned there, including Kossuth Lajos and Márai Sándor. All this was ended by the Czechoslovak invaders in 1919, who closed the schools, which were then moved to present-day Hungary. The town was founded by King Béla II the Blind of Hungary, who named it after the strawberry growing in the area. It became the seat of Sáros County in 1647. Eperjes was a strong bastion of the anti-Habsburg uprising of Thököly Imre, and in retaliation the tribunal of General Caraffa tortured 300 people and brutally executed 24 wealthy burghers to put his hands on their fortune. The Hungarian and German population was thinned by the plague in the 18th century and Slavs started to migrate to the town, but it got Slovakized during the persecutions of the 20th century.
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895
Arrival of the Hungarians
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895
The alliance of the seven Hungarian tribes took possession of the then largely uninhabited Carpathian Basin. Until then, the sparse Slavic population of the north-western Carpathians had lived under Moravian rule for a few decades after the collapse of the Avar Khaganate in the early 9th century.
1000
Foundation of the Hungarian Kingdom
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1000
The Kingdom of Hungary was established with the coronation of King Stephen I. He converted the Hungarians to Christianity and created two archdioceses (Esztergom and Kalocsa) and ten dioceses. He divided Hungary into counties led by ispáns, who were appointed by the king.
1132
King Béla II of Hungary (Béla the Blind) founded the settlement and named it after the strawberries growing in the area.
1233
The settlement was mentioned for the first time.
1241-1242
Mongol Invasion
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1241-1242
The hordes of the Mongol Empire invaded Hungary and almost completely destroyed it. One third to one half of the population was destroyed. The Mongols also suffered heavy losses in the battle of Muhi and they could not hunt down the king. After their withdrawal, King Béla IV reorganized Hungary. He allowed the feudal lords to build stone castles because they were able to successfully resist the nomadic Mongols. The vast majority of stone castles were built after this. The king called in German, Vlach (Romanian) and Slavic settlers to replace the destroyed population.
1288
A Carmelite monastery was established.
1299
King Andrew III of Hungary granted the settlement town status.
1301
The extinction of the House of Árpád
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1301
The House of Árpád, the first Hungarian royal dynasty, died out with the death of King Andrew III. Hungary was ruled by oligarchs, the most powerful of whom was Csák Máté, whose main ally was the Aba family. King Charles I (1308-1342), supported by the Pope, eventually emerged as the most prominent of the contenders for the Hungarian throne. But it took decades to break the power of the oligarchs.
1324
Charles I of Hungary made Eperjes a free royal town. It was one of the 8 towns under the jurisdiction of the Master of the Treasury.
1395
Kanizsai János and Nádor (Palatine) Josvay Leusták with their armies prevented the open rebellion of the nobility of northern Hungary against King Sigismund. The nobility supporting Queen Hedvig of Poland, a pretender to the throne of Hungary, who was the daughter of King Louis I of Hungary (died in 1382).
1412
The 5 most important free royal towns made an alliance under the name Pentapolitana, these were: Kassa, Eperjes, Lőcse, Kisszeben, Bártfa. The purpose of the alliance was to regulate trade. The leading town was Kassa.
1440
After the death of King Albert of the House of Habsburg, the Estates of Hungary elected the Polish Ulászló to the throne. Elisabeth, the widow queen, in order to secure the throne for László, her baby boy, called in the Czech Hussite mercenary leader Jan Jiskra. She gave him the title "Captain of the Mining Towns and Kassa", and gave him the castle of Zólyom.
1440-1441
The Czech Hussites soon occupied much of northern Hungary, including Eperjes. They reinforced the castles and turned them into bandit lairs. They were pillaging everywhere and large areas became uninhabited. They wiped out the local German and Hungarian population, who were replaced by Czech and other Slavic settlers. The Czech Hussite devastation largely contributed to the Slavicisation of northern Hungary (now Slovakia).
1462
At the end of the war that King Matthias of Hungary had waged against the Hussites since 1458, Jiskra swore loyalty to the king and handed over the castles he still held. Afterwards Jiskra fought in the service of King Matthias until his death.
1514
The town gained the right to hold country fairs.
1526
Battle of Mohács and the splitting of Hungary into two parts
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1526
Sultan Suleiman I launched a war against Vienna, instigated by the French. Ferdinand I, Duke of Austria, was the brother-in-law of King Louis II of Hungary. The army of the Ottoman Empire defeated the much smaller Hungarian army at Mohács, and King Louis II died in the battle. A group of the barons elected Ferdinand I of the House of Habsburg to the throne, who promised to defend Hungary from the Turks. He was the younger brother of the most powerful European monarch Emperor Charles V. But the nobility chose the most powerful Hungarian baron, Szapolyai János, who was also crowned as King John I. The country was split in two and a decades-long struggle for power began.
1531
A Lutheran institution was founded.
1541
The Turkish occupation of the capital, Buda, and the division of Hungary into three parts
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1541
The Turks conquered Buda, the capital of Hungary, after the death of King John I. The central part of the country was under Turkish rule for 150 years. The western and northern parts (including present-day Slovakia) formed the Kingdom of Hungary ruled by the Habsburg emperors. The eastern parts (now mainly under Romanian rule) were ruled by the successors of King John I of Hungary. In 1571, John II (John Sigismund), the son of King John I of Hungary, renounced the title of King of Hungary in favor of King Maximilian of the House of Habsburg, and henceforth held the title of Prince. This formally created the Principality of Transylvania, which was the eastern half of Hungary not ruled by the Habsburgs and was also a vassal of the Ottoman Empire. John II died in 1571, after which the three nations of Transylvania (the Hungarian nobility, the Székelys and the Saxons) elected the prince.
1604-1606
Uprising of Bocskai István
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1604-1606
The alliance of the Habsburgs and the Principality of Transylvania was defeated by the Ottoman Empire in the Fifteen Years' War. The war devastated Transylvania, which was occupied by the Habsburg imperial army, and General Basta introduced a reign of terror. The nobility and the burghers were upset about the terror, the plundering mercenaries and the violent Counter-Reformation. Bocskai István decided to lead their uprising after the Habsburg emperor tried to confiscate his estates. Bocskai also rallied the hajdú warriors to his side. He was elected Prince of Transylvania and soon liberated the Kingdom of Hungary from the Habsburgs. In 1605 Bocskai István was crowned King of Hungary with the crown he received from the Turks.
early 1605
Eperjes was the headquarters of the Imperial General Basta in the time of the anti-Habsburg uprising of Bocskai István. In April Basta was forced to give up Eperjes and he started to retreat towards Pozsony.
23 June 1606
Peace of Vienna
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23 June 1606
Bocski István made peace with Emperor Rudolf. Their agreement secured the constitutional rights of the Estates of Hungary, and the freedom of religion. The counties of Szatmár, Bereg and Ugocsa were annexed to the Principality of Transylvania. Bocskai died of illness in the same year, leaving to his successors the idea of unifying Hungary from Transylvania.
1619
The campaign of Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania in the Thirty Years' War
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1619
At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania went to war against the Habsburg emperor as an ally of the rebelling Czech-Moravian-Austrian estates. The whole Kingdom of Hungary joined him, only the Austrian defenders of Pozsony had to be put to the sword. With his allies, he laid siege to Vienna. However, he was forced to abandon the siege because the Habsburg-loyal Hungarian aristocrat Homonnai Drugeth György attacked his heartland with Polish mercenaries. On 25 August 1620, the Diet of Besztercebánya elected Bethlen Gábor King of Hungary as vassal of the Turks. He continued to fight after the defeat of the Czechs at White Mountain on 8 November 1620, but without real chance to achieve decisive victory, he decided to come to an agreement with Emperor Ferdinand II.
September 1619
The town peacefully surrendered to Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania.
December 2, 1619
The Habsburg-friendly Homonnay Drugeth György attacked the heartland of Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania, while he was besieging Vienna. Homonnay told Eperjes to surrender, but was rejected. After that Homonnay attacked Kisszeben, but Abaffy Miklós with the army of Sáros County and the citizens and the infantry of Eperjes overtook him and repelled his attack. Homonnay left the country in the middle of December.
31 December 1621
Peace of Nikolsburg
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31 December 1621
Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania made peace with Emperor Ferdinand II. Their agreement secured the constitutional rights of the Estates of Hungary, and later it was supplemented with the freedom of religion. Bethlen renounced the title of King of Hungary in exchange for seven counties of the Upper Tisza region (Szabolcs, Szatmár, Bereg, Ugocsa, Zemplén, Borsod, Abaúj) for the rest of his life, other estates in Hungary as his private property and the imperial title of Duke of Oppeln and Ratibor (Opole and Racibórz), one of the Duchies of Silesia. Prince Bethlen went to war against the Habsburgs in 1623 and 1626, but was unable to negotiate more favourable terms.
1644-1645
The campaign of Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania in the Thirty Years' War
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1644-1645
Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania allied with the Swedes and the French in the Thirty Years' War and went to war against the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand III. On 18 July 1645 his army joined forces with Torstenson's Swedish army under Brno (Moravia). The excellent artillery of Transylvania opened fire on the city walls. However, Rákóczi had to give up the siege, having been informed that the Turks were planning a punitive campaign against Transylvania, because he went to war against the Sultan's prohibition.
March 1644
The town surrendered to Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania.
May 1644
Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania retreated from the Vág River to the line of the Tisza River from the advancing Imperial army. He sent significant reinforcements to the defense of the towns of Kassa, Eperjes, Tokaj and Sárospatak.
late June 1644
Eperjes refused to surrender to the Imperials. Afterwards the Imperials failed the capture the castle of Sáros by siege and finally, they retreated to Bajmóc.
16 December 1645
Peace of Linz
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16 December 1645
Prince Rákóczi György I of Transylvania made peace with Emperor Ferdinand III. It secured the freedom of religion for the Protestants and extended it also to the serfs. Rákóczi received the same seven Hungarian counties that Prince Bethlen Gábor had also held (Abauj, Zemplén, Borsod, Bereg, Ugocsa, Szabolcs, Szatmár) until his death, and the counties of Szabolcs and Szatmár were also to be inherited by his sons. The Rákóczi family also received several new estates.
1647
The town became the seat of Sáros County.
1656
A printing press was established.
1667
A Lutheran college was founded.
1671
Emperor Leopold I (1657-1705) ordered the Lutherans to hand over their churces to the Catholics. The Lutheran college was taken over by the Jesuit Order, and the Protestant priests were driven away from Eperjes.
after 1671
Kuruc Movement
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after 1671
Many noble, burgher and preacher fled to the Principality of Transylvania and the territory under Turkish occupation from the reprisals after the exposure of the anti-Habsburg Wesselényi-conspiracy and from the violent Counter-Reformation. They were joined by dismissed Hungarian soldiers of the Turkish border forts, who were replaced by German mercenaries. They were called the fugitives (bujdosók). They started an armed movement against the Habsburg rule. Because of the Turkish ban, the Principality of Transylvania could not openly support them. From 1677, the French supported their cause with money and Polish mercenaries. They achieved their first serious success when they temporarily occupied the mining towns of northern Hungary (now central Slovakia) under the command of Thököly lmre. He then became the sole leader of the movement. In 1679, the French made peace with Emperor Leopold I and withdrew their support for the fugitives. Between 1678 and 1681 Thököly Imre led successful raids against the Habsburgs and their supporters in the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary. The insurgents were called kurucs.
October 2, 1672
After the fugitives defeated the Imperials at Enyicke, they occupied Eperjes, and Sáros County joined the uprising.
October 26, 1672
The Imperials defeated the fugitives in the battle between Györke and Eperjes (battle of Györke). The fugitives were forced to withdraw to Transylvania and the Parts.
1673
Count Wolkra's marauders plundered the town. Leopold I deprived Eperjes of its town privileges and ordered the destruction of its walls.
July 28, 1678
Teleki Mihály, leader of the fugitives besieged Eperjes, but upon receiving the news about the arrival of the Imperial army of General Leslie, he gave up the siege and withdrew to castle Kővár.
1682
Thököly Imre, Prince of Upper Hungary
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1682
Thököly Imre, the leader of the kuruc insurgents, gained the support of the Turks. He launched a campaign against the Habsburgs in the Kingdom of Hungary. With the support of the Turkish army, he occupied the town of Kassa and also the important stronghold of Fülek. He was then recognized by the Turks as King of Hungary, but he chose the title of Prince of Upper Hungary.
August 14, 1682
Kassa surrendered to the joined armies of Thököly Imre kuruc leader and the pasha of Buda. Afterwards they captured Eperjes. The still Lutheran town sided with the kuruc insurgents and expelled the Jesuits, destroyed the Franciscan monastery and gave lots of soldiers to Thököly Imre.
1683
Turkish defeat at Vienna and the formation of the Holy League
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1683
The combined armies of the Habsburg Empire and the Kingdom of Poland defeated the Turkish army besieging Vienna. Emperor Leopold I wanted to make peace with the Turks, but was refused by Sultan Mehmed IV. In 1684, at the persistent urging of Pope Innocent XI, the Holy League, an alliance of the Kingdom of Poland, the Habsburg Empire, the Republic of Venice and the Papal States, was formed to expel the Turks from Hungary. Thököly Imre, who had allied himself with the Turks, was gradually driven out of northern Hungary.
1683
Eperjes repelled the attack of the Polish army sent to liberate Vienna from the Turkish siege.
September 17, 1684
Early in the morning the Imperial army of Schulz raided the camp of Thököly under the walls of Eperjes. The kuruc insurgents left everything behind during their flight. Thököly fled to castle Regéc. Schulz did not besiege Eperjes.
November 7-24, 1684
After having strengthened its army with reinforcements, Schulz lay siege to Eperjes, but being unsuccessful he finally gave up.
July 21 - September 11, 1685
Not having received any help from Thököly, Eperjes had to surrender to Schulz after two months of siege.
1685
The Turkish captivity of Thököly Imre and the fall of the kuruc movement
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1685
The Pasha of Várad captured Thököly Imre as he was asking for Turkish help and offered him to Emperor Leopold I for peace. But the Imperial emissaries laughed at his face, because, having the upper hand, they no longer cared for Thököly. On the news of his capture, the town of Kassa and the kuruc strongholds surrendered to the Emperor one after the other. The Turks, seeing their fatal mistake, released Thököly the following year and tried to restore his authority, but his power was broken forever and the Hungarian insurgents no longer trusted the Turks. Most of the insurgents joined the imperial army and helped to liberate the rest of Hungary from the Turks.
1686
Recapture of Buda and the liberation of Hungary from the Turks
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1686
The army of the Holy League recaptured Buda from the Turks by siege. In 1687, the Imperial army invaded the Principality of Transylvania. The liberation was hindered by the French breaking their promise of peace in 1688 and attacking the Habsburg Empire. By 1699, when the Peace of Karlóca was signed, all of Hungary and Croatia had been liberated from the Ottoman Empire with the exception of Temesköz, the area bounded by the Maros, the Tisza and the Danube rivers. It was not until the Peace of Požarevac in 1718 that Temesköz was liberated from the Turks. However, the continuous war against the Turkish invaders and the Habsburg autocracy, which lasted for more than 150 years, wiped out large areas of the Hungarian population, which had previously made up 80% of the country's population, and was replaced by Vlachs (Romanians), Serbs and other Slavic settlers and Germans. The Habsburgs also favoured the settlement of these foreign peoples over the 'rebellious' Hungarians.
March 3, 1687
The revenge of Emperor Leopold I reached the town. General Caraffa introduced martial law. His tribunal tortured 300 people who sympathized with the kuruc insurgents and brutally executed 24 rich citizens to get their riches.
1696
A fire devastated the town.
1703-1711
Hungarian War of Independence led by Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II
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1703-1711
After the expulsion of the Turks, the Habsburgs treated Hungary as a newly conquered province and did not respect its constitution. The serfs rose up against the Habsburg ruler because of the sufferings caused by the war and the heavy burdens, and they invited Rákóczi Ferenc II to lead them. Trusting in the help promised by King Louis XIV of France, he accepted. Rákóczi rallied the nobility to his side, and soon most of the country was under his control. The rebels were called the kurucs. In 1704, the French and the Bavarians were defeated at the Battle of Blenheim, depriving the Hungarians of their international allies. The Rusyn, Slovak and Vlach peasants and the Saxons of Szepes supported the fight for freedom, while the Serbs in the south and the Saxons in Transylvania served the Habsburgs. Due to lack of funds Rákóczi could not raise a strong regular army, and in 1710, Hungary was also hit by a severe plague. Rákóczi tried unsuccessfully to forge an alliance with Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. In his absence, without his knowledge, his commander-in-chief, Károlyi Sándor, accepted Emperor Joseph I's peace offer. The Peace of Szatmár formally restored the Hungarian constitution and religious freedom and granted amnesty, but did not ease the burden of serfdom. Rákóczi refused to accept the pardon and went into exile. He died in Rodosto, Turkey.
December 1, 1704
Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II captured the town by a 17 months long siege. Rákóczi gave back the town its privileges.
December 10, 1710
The Imperial army occupied the town.
1710
Most of the Hungarian and German population died in a plague.
18th century
Slavic migration.
1831
Eperjes was the center of the cholera uprising. The cholera was brought in from Galicia. The mostly Slovak and Rusin peasants could not go to their seasonal agricultural work on the Great Plain, which incited unrest. When the health commissioners were disinfecting the wells infected with cholera, the peasants attacked them, believing that their feudal lords want to poison them. They attacked the officials and the lords. By August, the uprising was quelled by quick and firm actions.
1848-1849
Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence
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1848-1849
Following the news of the Paris Revolution on 22 February 1848, the Hungarian liberal opposition led by Kossuth Lajos demanded the abolition of serfdom, the abolition of the tax exemption of the nobility, a parliament elected by the people, and an independent and accountable national government. The revolution that broke out in Pest on 15 March expressed its demands in 12 points, which, in addition to the above mentioned, included the freedom of the press, equality before the law, the release of the political prisoners and the union with Transylvania. A Hungarian government was formed, Batthyány Lajos became prime minister, and on 11 April Emperor Ferdinand V ratified the reform laws. On August 31 the Emperor demanded the repeal of the laws threatening with military intervention. In September the Emperor unleashed the army of Jelacic, Ban of Croatia, on Hungary, but they were defeated by the Hungarians in the Battle of Pákozd on 29 September. An open war began for the independence of Hungary. The Habsburgs incited the nationalities against the Hungarians. The Rusyns, the Slovenes and most of the Slovaks and Germans supported the cause persistently, but the Vlachs (Romanians) and the Serbians turned against the Hungarians. The glorious Spring Campaign in 1849 led by General Görgei Artúr liberated almost all of Hungary. On 1 May 1849, Emperor Franz Joseph, effectively admitting defeat, asked for the help of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, who sent an intervention army of 200,000 soldiers against Hungary. The resistance became hopeless against the overwhelming enemy forces and on 13 August Görgei Artúr surrendered to the Russians at Világos. Bloody reprisals followed, and on 6 October 1849, 12 generals and a colonel of the Hungarian Revolution, the martyrs of Arad, were executed in Arad. On the same day, Batthyány Lajos, the first Hungarian Prime Minister, was executed by firing squad in Pest. The Habsburgs introduced total authoritarianism in Hungary, but they also failed to fulfil their promises to the nationalities that had betrayed the Hungarians.
1867
Austro-Hungarian Compromise
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1867
The Habsburg Empire was weakened by the defeats it suffered in the implementation of Italian and German unity. The Hungarians wanted to return to the reform laws of 1848, but they did not have the strength to do so. Emperor Franz Joseph and the Hungarian opposition, led by Deák Ferenc, finally agreed to restructure the Empire and abolish absolutism. Hungary was given autonomy in its internal affairs, with its own government and parliament, which was essential for the development of its economy and culture. However, foreign and military affairs remained in the hands of the Habsburgs and served their aspiration for becoming a great power. The majority wanted Hungary's independence, but they were excluded from political power.
1870
The town gained railway access from Kassa.
1914-1918
World War I
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1914-1918
As part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Hungary took part in the war on the side of the Central Powers.
November 1918 - January 1919
The Czech, Romanian and Serbian occupation of Hungary
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November 1918 - January 1919
In Hungary, the freemasonic subversion brought the pro-Entente Károlyi Mihály to power. The new government, naively trusting the Entente powers, met all their demands and disbanded the Hungarian military, which rendered the country completely defenseless in the most dire need. Under French and Italian command, Czech, Romanian and Serbian troops invaded large parts of Hungary, where they immediately began the takeover. They fired Hungarian railway workers, officials and teachers, banned the use of the Hungarian language, abolished Hungarian education, and disposed of everything that reminded them of the country's Hungarian past. Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians were forced to leave their homeland, and the forcible assimilation of the remaining Hungarians was begun.
December 28, 1918
The Czechoslovaks invaded Eperjes.
21 March - 1 August 1919
Communist takeover and the Northern Campaign
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21 March - 1 August 1919
After the Entente put vast areas with a Hungarian population under foreign administration, the pro-Entente government resigned and the traitorous Prime Minister Károlyi Mihály handed over power to the communists, who had little support anyway. They raised the Hungarian Red Army, which liberated large parts of northern Hungary from Czech occupation in the 'Northern Campaign'. The aim was to unite with the Russian Red Army, which ultimately failed because of the Russians' defeat. French Prime Minister Clemenceau promised the Jewish Kun Béla that he would recognise the Hungarian Soviet Republic and invite it to the peace conference if it would call back the army from northern Hungary. Calling back the army demoralized the soldiers, who fought for their homeland and not for communism. Clemenceau broke his promise and let the Romanian horde cross the Tisza River and capture Budapest.
June 9, 1919
The army of the Hungarian Soviet Republic liberated Eperjes from the Czechoslovak invaders.
June 16, 1919
The Slovak Soviet Republic was declared in Eperjes at 12:30 from the balcony of the town hall.
4 June 1920
Trianon Dictate
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4 June 1920
Hungary was forced to sign the Treaty of Trianon, although the country was not invited to the peace talks. Hungary lost two thirds of its territory that had belonged to it for more than 1000 years. One-third of the Hungarian population came under foreign rule. On the basis of the national principle, countries with a more mixed and less ethnically balanced composition than the former Hungary were created, such as Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia). For example, while 48% of the population of the territory ceded to Czechoslovakia was Slovak and 30% Hungarian, 54% of the population of the former Hungary was Hungarian and 10.6% Slovak. And in the territory that is now part of Serbia, the Hungarians outnumbered the Serbs. The part of the territory allocated to Romania from Hungary was larger than the remaining territory of Hungary, despite the fact that there were 10 million Hungarians and less than 3 million Romanians in the former Hungary. While Hungary used to have the most liberal nationality policy in Europe, the successor states had no respect at all for the national and cultural rights of the indigenous Hungarians and engaged in forced assimilation. The Trianon Dictate destroyed the organic economic unity of the region. Before the First World War, Hungary had a dynamic economy, more advanced than Spain's. After 1920, the successor states formed the so-called "Little Entente", putting Hungary under an economic blockade and sabotaging it on the international stage.
14 March 1939
First independent Slovakia was established
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14 March 1939
The first independent Slovakia was established under German patronage. Josef Tiso became president of the country. In 1938, Hungary regained 11,927 km2 of territory from Czechoslovakia under the First Vienna Award. Its population was 869 thousand people, 86.5% of whom were Hungarian. From the remaining territory that Hungary did not get back, Slovakia was formed.
Autumn 1944 - Spring 1945
Soviet occupation
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Autumn 1944 - Spring 1945
The Soviet Red Army occupied Hungary and Slovakia, which resulted in the recreation of Czechoslovakia.
January 19, 1945
The Soviets invaded Eperjes.
5 April 1945
Beneš decrees and the persecution of Hungarians
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5 April 1945
In Hungarian-majority Kassa, the president of occupying Czechoslovakia, Edvard Beneš, promulgated his government program, the so-called Beneš decrees. As part of this, the Hungarian population was deprived of their rights. Their complete expulsion was planned, with the support of the Soviet Union, and only the veto of the USA prevented it. Under the 'Reslavakization' programme, only those Hungarians who recognised themselves as Slovaks were allowed to regain their rights, thus renouncing all linguistic and cultural rights. In the violent expulsions that followed, nearly 200,000 Hungarians were deprived of their property and expelled from their homeland on the basis of their nationality.
1 January 1993
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
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1 January 1993
Czechoslovakia disintegrated due to ethnic differences between Czechs and Slovaks, shortly after the withdrawal of Soviet tanks. Slovakia was formed entirely from territory carved out of historic Hungary, and Slovak national identity is still largely based on falsified history and artificial hatred of Hungarians. Despite deportations, expulsions, forced assimilation and strong economic pressure, there are still nearly half a million Hungarians living in the country.
Source: Wikipedia, arcanum.hu - Bánlaky József: A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme
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St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church
Konkatedrála svätého Mikuláša
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St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church
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The church was built from 1330 to 1515. Flemish settlers started the construction, who dedicated it to the guardian of their homeland, St. Nicholas. In 1391 King Sigismund of Hungary ordered the large-scale expansion of the church. A presbytery was added and it was rebuilt into a three-nave church.
The church was reconstructed in Baroque style in 1696. Its Baroque winged altar was also made in 1696. The pieces of the earlier Gothic altar from 1490 were incorporated into the new one. The western tower was built around 1750, and it gained its present form in a reconstruction in 1903 according to the plans of the Hungarian architect Schulek Frigyes.
Franciscan Church and Monastery
Františkánsky kostol
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Franciscan Church and Monastery
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The church and the monastery were built by the Carmelites at the end of the 14th century and was reconstructed at the end of the 17th century in Renaissance style. In 1719 the Franciscans acquired the buildings and gave them Baroque appearance.
Calvary with the Church of the Holy Cross
Kostol svätého kríža
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calvary
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calvary
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Calvary with the Church of the Holy Cross
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The first chapel was built in 1721. The church and the other chapels were built in 1756 in Baroque style.
Trinity Lutheran Church
Evanjelický a. v. chrám Svätej Trojice
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Trinity Lutheran Church
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In 1531 Eperjes became a Lutheran town, and there was only Lutheran church in the town until 1671. The church was built in 1642 in Baroque style. The remains of the victims of General Caraffa were placed in the church.
St. John the Baptist Greek Catholic Cathedral
Cathedral chrám svätého Jána Krstiteľa (gréckokatolícka cerkev)
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church
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church
Church:
Greek Catholic
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St. John the Baptist Greek Catholic Cathedral
History
A hospital church stood in its place dedicated to Virgin Mary at the end of the 14th century. In the 15th century it was managed by the Augustinians together with the hospital and the workhouse. After 1540 the Protestants used the church. The Minorites used it from 1673 and they turned the hospital into a monastery. The Baroque reconstruction was started in 1753-54. In 1787 the Minorites were banned by Emperor Joseph II. It became the church of the Greek Catholics in 1792. Now it is the centre of the Greek Catholics in the Uplands (Slovakia).
Alexander Nevsky Orthodox Church
Katedrálny chrám svätého Alexandra Nevského
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church
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church
Church:
Orthodox
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Alexander Nevsky Orthodox Church
History
The church was built in 1950.
Roman Catholic Parish
History
It was built in 1780 on Renaissance foundations. Its facade has a Rococo decoration and a stucco relief depicting St. Nicholas.
Greek Catholic Episcopal Palace and Faculty of Theology
GRÉCKOKATOLÍCKE ARCIBISKUPSTVO
Originally:
Bishop's / Archbishop's Palace
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Bishop's / Archbishop's Palace
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Greek Catholic
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Greek Catholic Episcopal Palace and Faculty of Theology
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Synagogue
Židovská orthodox synagogue
Originally:
synagogue
Currently:
museum
Church:
Jewish
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Synagogue
History
The synagogue was built between 1897 and 1898.
Public buildings
Old County Hall
History
Built in 1783 in Zopf syle. It was once the seat of Sáros County within Hungary.
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Old Town Hall
History
It served as town hall until 1520. Today it is wine museum.
Town Hall
History
It was built in 1424 and it has been the town hall since 1520. It gained Baroque appearance in 1788.
Caraffa Prison, Town Gallery
Caraffova väznica
Originally:
prison/jail
Currently:
gallery
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Caraffa Prison, Town Gallery
History
It was built between 1504 and 1509 in Gothic style. The tradition connects the building with the terror of General Caraffa, but in reality it has nothing to do with it.
It was a wine house for storing wine barrels until the 17th century. According to some written references, the town's control measures and weights were kept in the building and it also served as the town's armory for some time. It was a prison in the second half of the 19th century. From the beginning of the 20th century it was used for the town's archives. It is now municipal gallery.
Cultural facilities
Old Town School, former Jesuit Grammar School
Stará mestská škola
Originally:
school
Currently:
library
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Old Town School, former Jesuit Grammar School
History
It was mentioned for the first time in 1415. The education was stopped in the building with the establishment of the Lutheran college. From 1673 it was a Jesuit grammar school, which became Royal Catholic Grammar School in the second half of the 19th century.
Lutheran College
Evanjelické kolégium
Originally:
school
Currently:
house
Church:
Lutheran
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Lutheran College
History
It stands on the main square north of the Lutheran church. In 1531 the old town school was turned into a Lutheran institution with foreign scholars. The representatives of the Lutherans of the Kingdom of Hungary, nobles, priests and emissaries of the free royal towns assembled in Kassa in 1665. They decided to establish a Lutheran college and nearly 100,000 gold was contributed. On October 18, 1667 the college was opened. It consisted of 10 classes and put great emphasis on the education of the mother tongue, the Hungarian. The school focused on the education of natural sciences. In 1671 Emperor Leopold I took the collage from the Lutherans. Thököly Imre, the leader of the kuruc insurgents, gave the collage back to the Lutherans in 1682 but in 1687 it was acquired by the Jesuits again. Thanks to Rákóczi Ferenc ll the college was in the hands of the Lutherans again from 1705 to 1711 during the War of Independence of Hungary. From 1774 it was used as storage for the nourishment of soldiers. Advised by Emperor Joseph II, the Lutherans purchased the building back in 1785 and reopened the school. In 1811 a Law Academy, in 1852 a Theological Academy and in 1873 a Teacher Training Academy was attached to the school, so together with the grammar school it consisted of four institutions. The Czechoslovak invaders marched into Eperjes before Christmas in 1918 and banned Hungarian-Ianguage education. In March 1919 the commissioner of the Czechoslovak government urged the moving of the schools to the unoccupied territory of Hungary. The Law Academy and the Teacher Training Academy moved to Miskolc, while the theological education continued in Budapest. Of all the schools of Sáros County only the primary school of Eperjes could continue teaching in Hungarian language. The last final exam was taken in Hungarian in the grammar school in 1926. Thököly Imre, Kazinczy Ferenc, Kossuth Lajos and Márai Sándor learned in Eperjes among other famous Hungarians.
Planetarium
Hvezdáreň the planetarium v Prešove
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observatory / planetarium
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observatory / planetarium
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Planetarium
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Commerce, industry, hospitality
former Black Eagle Tavern
Čierny orol
Originally:
hotel / tavern / guesthouse
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house
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former Black Eagle Tavern
History
It was a tavern in the 17th century. In the 1840's it became a Vigadó (dancing hall), later it was the Hotel Savoy.
Town infrastructure
Florian Gate
History
It was built in the first half of the 15th century as part of the new town wall.
Old Bastion Tower
History
Town Walls
Mestské hradby
Originally:
town fortification
Currently:
town fortification
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Town Walls
History
The only remaining part of the town's wall.
Private buildings
Rákóczi Palace, Museum of Sáros
Krajské Museum
Originally:
palace
Currently:
museum
Note:
Exhibition of history, ethnography and fire-fighting.
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Rákóczi Palace, Museum of Sáros
History
It was created by Rákóczi Zsigmond in Renaissance style at the end of the 16th century by joining two older burgher's houses.
In 1633 Prince Rákóczi György of Transylvania and Emperor Ferdinand II made the Agreement of Eperjes in the house. In 1701 it became a prison. The last owner from the Rákóczi family was Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II during the War of Independence of Hungary. The Rákóczis wore the title "eternal ispán of Sáros County".
Klobusiczky Palace
History
Once it was 5 separate burgher's house. It was owned by the Drugeth family in the 16th and 17th centuries. The famous Hussar captain Bercsényi László, the son of Bercsényi Miklós and Drugeth Krisztina, was born here in 1689. He was the captain of the body guards of Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II and later he became marshal of France. With the permission of King Louis XV of France he organized the first independent Hussar regiment from Hungarian emigrants in Rodosto (Edirne, Turkey) in 1720. With the dissolution of the regiment organized by Ráttky, the regiment of Bercsényi László laid the foundation of the famous French light cavalry also used by Napoleon.
Klobusiczky Ferenc turned the building into a Baroque palace. In 1770 Joseph II met the leaders of the Polish Confederation in the palace. The facade of the building is decorated by frescos depicting episodes from the life of Virgin Mary.
Holländer Palace
History
It was purchased in 1789 by the rich Jewish merchant Holländer Markus, who gained citizenship in Eperjes. He was fighting for the emancipation of Jews.
Gallery of Sáros
History
It is situated in a building that was once two separate Gothic burgher's houses reconstructed first in Renaissance later in Baroque style.
https://www.kozterkep.hu/39661/vecsey-csalad-cimere
Memorials
Statue of Queen Elisabeth
Pamätník cisárovnej Sissi
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
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statue / memorial / relief
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Statue of Queen Elisabeth
History
After visiting the spa in Bártfafürdő in 1895, Queen Elisabeth stayed in Eperjes. The statue was made by Stróbl Alajos and was unveiled in 1901. During the Czechoslovak invasion in 1918-19 the statue was vandalized. Later it was considered to have been lost. The statue was repaired and unveiled again in 2010 with the inscription "Sissi". Originally she wore a crown.
Statue of Virgin Mary
Súsošie Immaculaty
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
Currently:
statue / memorial / relief
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Statue of Virgin Mary
History
It was raised in 1751 where once the execution ground of General Caraffa stood. In 1687 General Caraffa watched the execution of 24 wealthy burghers of Eperjes from the window of the house No. 109.
Statue of John Paul II
Socha Jána Pavla II.
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
Currently:
statue / memorial / relief
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Statue of John Paul II
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Statue of Jesus
Socha Jezhish Krista
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
Currently:
statue / memorial / relief
Church:
Roman Catholic
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Statue of Jesus
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Memorial of the Martyrs of Eperjes
Originally:
statue / memorial / relief
Currently:
statue / memorial / relief
Church:
Lutheran
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Memorial of the Martyrs of Eperjes
History
Emperor Leopold I managed to subdue the uprising of Thököly Imre in Hungary. On March 3, 1687 General Caraffa introduced martial law in Eperjes. His tribunal tortured 300 Protestants who sympathized with the insurgents and brutally executed 24 wealthy burghers to get their riches.
Museums and Galleries
Rákóczi Palace, Museum of Sáros
Krajské Museum
Originally:
palace
Currently:
museum
Note:
Exhibition of history, ethnography and fire-fighting.
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Rákóczi Palace, Museum of Sáros
History
It was created by Rákóczi Zsigmond in Renaissance style at the end of the 16th century by joining two older burgher's houses.
In 1633 Prince Rákóczi György of Transylvania and Emperor Ferdinand II made the Agreement of Eperjes in the house. In 1701 it became a prison. The last owner from the Rákóczi family was Prince Rákóczi Ferenc II during the War of Independence of Hungary. The Rákóczis wore the title "eternal ispán of Sáros County".
Synagogue
Židovská orthodox synagogue
Originally:
synagogue
Currently:
museum
Church:
Jewish
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Synagogue
History
The synagogue was built between 1897 and 1898.
Caraffa Prison, Town Gallery
Caraffova väznica
Originally:
prison/jail
Currently:
gallery
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Caraffa Prison, Town Gallery
History
It was built between 1504 and 1509 in Gothic style. The tradition connects the building with the terror of General Caraffa, but in reality it has nothing to do with it.
It was a wine house for storing wine barrels until the 17th century. According to some written references, the town's control measures and weights were kept in the building and it also served as the town's armory for some time. It was a prison in the second half of the 19th century. From the beginning of the 20th century it was used for the town's archives. It is now municipal gallery.
Gallery of Sáros
History
It is situated in a building that was once two separate Gothic burgher's houses reconstructed first in Renaissance later in Baroque style.
https://www.kozterkep.hu/39661/vecsey-csalad-cimere
Planetarium
Hvezdáreň the planetarium v Prešove
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observatory / planetarium
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observatory / planetarium
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Planetarium
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The remains of the victims of General Caraffa were placed in the church."},{"sightId":234,"townId":16,"active":1,"name_LO":"Evanjelick\u00e9 kol\u00e9gium","address":"Hlavn\u00e1 2939\/137, 080 01 Pre\u0161ov","mapdata":"1|821|250","gps_lat":"48.9990510000","gps_long":"21.2394990000","religion":3,"oldtype":"74","newtype":"53","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Evangelikus-kollegium-Eperjes-1010","csemadoklink":"\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Martin Baran \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.5)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Evangelic_Lutheran_College_Presov.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Evangelic Lutheran College Presov\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d8\/Evangelic_Lutheran_College_Presov.jpg\/512px-Evangelic_Lutheran_College_Presov.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Evangelic_Lutheran_College_Presov.jpg\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003EMartin Baran\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.5\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Lutheran College ","seolink":"lutheran-college","note":"","history":"It stands on the main square north of the Lutheran church. 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Advised by Emperor Joseph II, the Lutherans purchased the building back in 1785 and reopened the school. In 1811 a Law Academy, in 1852 a Theological Academy and in 1873 a Teacher Training Academy was attached to the school, so together with the grammar school it consisted of four institutions. The Czechoslovak invaders marched into Eperjes before Christmas in 1918 and banned Hungarian-Ianguage education. In March 1919 the commissioner of the Czechoslovak government urged the moving of the schools to the unoccupied territory of Hungary. The Law Academy and the Teacher Training Academy moved to Miskolc, while the theological education continued in Budapest. Of all the schools of S\u00e1ros County only the primary school of Eperjes could continue teaching in Hungarian language. The last final exam was taken in Hungarian in the grammar school in 1926. Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre, Kazinczy Ferenc, Kossuth Lajos and M\u00e1rai S\u00e1ndor learned in Eperjes among other famous Hungarians."},{"sightId":235,"townId":16,"active":1,"name_LO":"Katedr\u00e1lny chr\u00e1m sv\u00e4t\u00e9ho Alexandra Nevsk\u00e9ho","address":"Partiz\u00e1nska 3853\/3, 080 01 Pre\u0161ov","mapdata":"1|1104|1059","gps_lat":"48.9897960000","gps_long":"21.2442960000","religion":5,"oldtype":"1","newtype":"1","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"","csemadoklink":"\r","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Ing. Mgr. Jozef Kotuli\u010d \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Presov10Slovakia248.JPG\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Presov10Slovakia248\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/df\/Presov10Slovakia248.JPG\/512px-Presov10Slovakia248.JPG\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Presov10Slovakia248.JPG\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003EIng. Mgr. 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Jozef Kotuli\u010d \/ CC BY (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Presov11Slovakia131.JPG\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Presov11Slovakia131\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/37\/Presov11Slovakia131.JPG\/512px-Presov11Slovakia131.JPG\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Presov11Slovakia131.JPG\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003EIng. Mgr. Jozef Kotuli\u010d\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\u0022\u003ECC BY\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Statue of Virgin Mary","seolink":"statue-of-virgin-mary","note":"","history":"It was raised in 1751 where once the execution ground of General Caraffa stood. 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Jozef Kotuli\u010d \/ CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Presov10Slovakia532.JPG\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022256\u0022 alt=\u0022Presov10Slovakia532\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c7\/Presov10Slovakia532.JPG\/256px-Presov10Slovakia532.JPG\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Presov10Slovakia532.JPG\u0022 title=\u0022via Wikimedia Commons\u0022\u003EDoko Ing. Mgr. Jozef Kotuli\u010d\u003C\/a\u003E \/ \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA\u003C\/a\u003E","name":"Statue of Queen Elisabeth ","seolink":"statue-of-queen-elisabeth","note":"","history":"After visiting the spa in B\u00e1rtfaf\u00fcrd\u0151 in 1895, Queen Elisabeth stayed in Eperjes. The statue was made by Str\u00f3bl Alajos and was unveiled in 1901. 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