SOPRON

shôˈprôn, Ger. Ödenburg, city (1991 est. pop. 55,140), NW Hungary, near the Austrian border. It is a tourism and commercial center with fruit-preserving, sugar-refining, and cotton textile industries. Originally a Celtic settlement called Scarabantia, it became a military outpost under the Romans. Hungarians settling the area in the 10th and 11th cent. made the city an important fortress. Sopron was the site of the coronation of King (later emperor) Ferdinand III of Hungary and Bohemia in 1625 and a meeting place of the Hungarian Parliament in 1681. Part of the Burgenland, it was transferred to Austria after World War I but was returned to Hungary after a plebiscite (1921). Sopron is one of the oldest cultural centers in Hungary; it has a university, three 13th-century churches, and a 15th-century palace. Franz Liszt was born at nearby Dobojan.

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books on: Sopron  - 166 results

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1.
The Last Five Hours of Austria
Book by Eugene Lennhoff; Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938
Subjects: Austria--History--20th Cent, Austria--Politics And Government--1918-1938, Germany--Politics And Government--1933-1945, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
...onlookers. We traveled to Oedenburg or, as it now is, Sopron. Sopron is only an hour and a half from Vienna and is still...sense Austria. The narrow strip of Hungary, made up of Sopron and the surrounding villages, drives a deep wedge into...
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Hungary in Revolution, 1918-19: Nine Essays
Book by Iván Völgyes; University of Nebraska Press, 1971
Subjects: Hungary--History--Revolution, 1918-1919
...German newspaper of the area, published in Sopron. 107 Zsombor played an ambiguous role...immediately broke out: the city council of Sopron, the capital of the new province, voted...itself from the new area on the ground that Sopron was a Hungarian city. 112 Because of...
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The Celts
Book by Sabatino Moscati, Otto Hermann Frey, Venceslas Kruta, Barry Raftery, Miklós Szabó; Rizzoli, 1991
Subjects: Art, Celtic--Exhibitions, Civilization, Celtic--Exhibitions
The Sopron--Krautacker Settlement Elisabeth Jerem...the southwestern border of the town of Sopron on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not...The site lies in the valley between the Sopron hillside Denburg in German and the Rust...
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Carrying a Secret in My Heart: Children of Political Victims of the Revolution, 1956 Hungary : An Oral History
Book by Zsuzsanna Koru+F6si, Adrienne Molnu+E1r; Central European University Press, 2002
Subjects: Children Of Prisoners--Hungary--Interviews, Hungary--History--Revolution, 1956--Interviews
...Bosze was born on 31 December 1946 in Sopron. He applied to study Hun- garian literature...clerk in an industrial co-operative in Sopron. He became an active member of the Communist...In 1994 he earned a degree from the Sopron branch of the Theological College of Gyor...
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Franz Liszt: A Guide to Research
Book by Michael Saffle; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Liszt, Franz--1811-1886--Bibliography
...published decades ago by the Liszt Museum of Sopron, Hungary, provides a little information...handful of Liszt manuscripts and programs of Sopron Liszt concerts (p. 41). Published descriptions of Sopron exhibits contain surprisingly little information...
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journal articles on: Sopron  - 23 results

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The Sopron Plebiscite of 1921: A Success Story
Journal article by John C. Swanson; East European Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2000
Subjects: Austria--Political aspects, History--Eastern Europe, Hungarian history, Hungary--History, Political parties--Hungary
The Sopron Plebiscite of 1921: A Success Story. by John...Austria, and after a plebiscite the city of Sopron (Odenburg in German) was given to Hungary. Much of the literature on the Sopron plebiscite and the Burgenland focuses on the...
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The Deportees, the Resettled and Party Politics: Details on the Hungarian Coalition Parties' Standpoint on the Population Movements between 1944 and 1948
Journal article by Peter Strausz; East European Quarterly, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Political parties--Hungary, Soldiers--Political activity, Soldiers--Political aspects
...mainly those settled in Gyor, Moson and Sopron Counties--were forced into much worse...for example 35-40% of crop land in Sopron County was not cultivated. PIL 274...County: PIL 274. f. 9/33.o. e., Sopron County: "The main Schwab-saver and...
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Deformation Bands in Gravels: Displacement Gradients and Heterogeneous Strain
Journal article by Ulrike Exner, Bernhard Grasemann; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 167, 2010
Subjects: Deformation, Geology, Grain size, Plate tectonics, Shear strain, Strain hardening
...Miocene sediments of the Eisenstadt-Sopron Basin straddling the border between Austria...economically little explored Eisenstadt-Sopron Basin is rather poorly constrained. The...geological history of the Eisenstadt-Sopron Basin). The succession exposed in a...
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The German-Hungarian Revision of Textbooks
Journal article by Peter Molnar; East European Quarterly, Vol. 35, 2001
Subjects: Book publishing--History, Culture--International aspects, Geography, History, History--Literature, International cooperation--Social aspects, Literature, Textbooks--Editing, Textbooks--Quality management
...in the German plans. Moreover as for Sopron (Odenburg) and its surroundings, according...to arrange elections about the fate of Sopron (the center of Burgenland) and that...similarly and some of them illustrate Sopron and its surroundings as a German loss...
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Paramilitary Violence in Hungary after the First World War
Journal article by Bela Bodo; East European Quarterly, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects: Paramilitary forces--History, World War I, 1914-1918
...the famous Lahne Military Institute in Sopron. Pronay became a hussar officer at the...the holding of plebiscite in the down of Sopron and vicinity in return for the withdrawal of the militias. This referendum kept Sopron in Hungarian hands. (20.) Hungary...
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magazine articles on: Sopron  - 10 results

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A Royal Putsch in Hungary, 1921
Magazine article by Patrick Thursfield; Contemporary Review, Vol. 271, August 1997
Subjects: Hungary--Politics and government, Public officers--Personal narratives
...writes: A week later King Karl arrived at Sopron; and this second Putsch nearly destroyed...to telephone about some minor matter to Sopron... after a long wait, our exchange...a rumour that King Karl had arrived in Sopron... Bethlen returned early on Saturday...
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In Search of Hunor and Magor: Hungary's Western Region of Transdanubia
Magazine article by Eva Harnik; World and I, Vol. 19, February 2004
Subjects: Hungarian history--Emigration and immigration, Hungarian history--Myths and legends, Hungarian history--Travel
...nuns. The most loyal city Next I visited Sopron and Gy"r, two Baroque gems. Gy"r...watched Napoleon march toward Gy"r. Sopron, a western border city, gained the name...part of Austria. During Roman times, Sopron was on the amber route from the Baltic...
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Directory of Summer Programs
Magazine article; American Music Teacher, Vol. 56, February 2007
Subjects: Summer reading programs--Directories
...992 w/out housing. Credit available. Sopron Conservatory William Wellborn, Sopron Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, 50...Franz Liszt Summer Piano Academy and Festival, Sopron, Hungary. 7/20-8/5. Featured teachers...
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Directory of Summer Programs
Magazine article; American Music Teacher, Vol. 53, February 2004
...theory and workshops. Franz Liszt Conservatory in Sopron (See advertisement on page 35.) William Wellborn...pianoleg@aol.com Franz Liszt Piano Academy at Sopron, Sopron, Hungary, 7/16-7/30. Featured teachers: France...
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Directory of Summer Programs
Magazine article; American Music Teacher, Vol. 54, February 2005
Subjects: Music education--Directories, Music in education--Directories, Universities and colleges--Services, Universities and colleges--United States
...computer music. Cost: $872 per credit point, w/out housing. Sopron Conservatory of Music William Wellborn, instructor, San Francisco...aol.com Franz Liszt Summer Piano Academy and Festival, Sopron, Hungary, 7/15-7/29. Featured teachers: William Wellborn...
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newspaper articles on: Sopron  - 22 results

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Home Again, Briefly, in Hungary
Newspaper article by Eva Harnik; The Washington Times, October 14, 2000
...spatula in hand, and folk musicians. Sopron, rich with historical reminders on every...The city tower dominates every vista in Sopron. Soaring 200 feet toward the sky, it...quite unpleasant. I am amused to find in Sopron something of today: Every second house...
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HUNGARY FOR MORE; THE CO-OPERATIVE CUP: Jan Seeks Fourth Victory Parade
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), October 28, 2009
...The keeper has been pulled through the streets of Debrecen and Sopron on a horse-drawn carriage to show off the Hungarian Cup to...said: "I won the Hungarian Cup three times with Debrecen and Sopron and for any club to win a trophy is magical. "Not just for...
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Macca Makes Foxes Switch
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), June 28, 2004
...Czechs win FK Teplice of the Czech Republic beat Hungarian side Sopron Matav 3-1 to overturn a 1-0 deficit from the first leg and...their place in round two of the Intertoto Cup. Istvan Sira put Sopron ahead on the night and doubled their overall advantage after...
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Austria a Hub for Art, Music
Newspaper article; Sunshine Coast Daily (Maroochydore, Australia), December 27, 2008
Subjects: Musicians
...Hungarian princes of Esterhazy at Esterhazy Palace for more than 30 years, was a regular guest of the house of Esterhazy in Sopron, was awarded an honorary doctors degree at Oxford and spent the last 19 years of his life in Vienna, where he died on May...
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The Amiable All-Male Bedan Voices
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, June 14, 2004
...participated in various goodwill concerts, festivals and competitions. They participated in the 2nd International Choir Festival in Sopron, Hungary; 2000 Choir Olympics in Linz, Austria and the 5 Lyra Music and Dance Olympics in Budapest, Hungary. They also...
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encyclopedia articles on: Sopron  - 4 results

 
 
1.
Sopron
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SOPRON sho pron, Ger. Odenburg, city (1991...made the city an important fortress. Sopron was the site of the coronation of King...to Hungary after a plebiscite (1921). Sopron is one of the oldest cultural centers in...
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Burgenland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Austrian provinces; its territory was transferred from Hungary by the treaties of Saint-Germain (1919) and Trianon (1920). Sopron , the regions leading town, was returned (1921) to Hungary after a plebiscite. ____________________ Copyright...
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Trianon, Treaty Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...obtained Croatia, Slavonia, and the western section of the Banat. Austria was awarded the Burgenland, but the city of Sopron and its vicinity were returned to Hungary after a plebiscite (1921). Thus, Hungary was deprived of access to the sea and...
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Ödenburg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ODENBURG see Sopron , Hungary. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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