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Great Hungarian Plain, the Glossary

The Great Hungarian Plain (also known as Alföld or Great Alföld, Alföld or Nagy Alföld) is a plain occupying the majority of the modern territory of Hungary.^[1]

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Ópusztaszer

Ópusztaszer (till 1974 Sövényháza) is a village in Csongrád county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary.

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Bačka (Бачка) or Bácska is a geographical and historical area within the Pannonian Plain bordered by the river Danube to the west and south, and by the river Tisza to the east. Great Hungarian Plain and Bačka are geography of Vojvodina and historical regions in Hungary.

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Baja, Hungary

Baja is a city with county rights in Bács-Kiskun, southern Hungary.

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Banat

Banat (Bánság; Banat) is a geographical and historical region located in the Pannonian Basin that straddles Central and Eastern Europe. Great Hungarian Plain and Banat are geography of Vojvodina and historical regions in Hungary.

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Berehove Raion

Berehove Raion (Берегівський район; Beregszászi járás) is a raion (district) in Zakarpattia Oblast, in the westernmost corner of Ukraine.

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Berekfürdő

Berekfürdő is a village in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Carpathian Mountains

The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe.

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Cherry

A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).

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Crișana

Crișana (Körösvidék, Kreischgebiet) is a geographical and historical region in north-western Romania, named after the Criș (Körös) River and its three tributaries: the Crișul Alb, Crișul Negru, and Crișul Repede. Great Hungarian Plain and Crișana are historical regions in Hungary.

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Csángós

The Csángós (Csángók; Ceangăi) are ethnic Hungarians of Roman Catholic faith living mostly in the Romanian region of Moldavia, especially in Bacău County.

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Cserkeszőlő

Cserkeszőlő is a village in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary.

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Cumans

The Cumans or Kumans (kumani; Kumanen;; Połowcy; cumani; polovtsy; polovtsi) were a Turkic nomadic people from Central Asia comprising the western branch of the Cuman–Kipchak confederation who spoke the Cuman language.

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Debrecen

Debrecen (Debrezin; Debrecín) is Hungary's second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County.

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Dinaric Alps

The Dinaric Alps, also Dinarides, are a mountain range in Southern and Southcentral Europe, separating the continental Balkan Peninsula from the Adriatic Sea.

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Eastern Slovak Lowland

The East(ern) Slovak Lowland (Slovak: Východoslovenská nížina) is the name of a part of the Great Hungarian Plain (Slovak: Veľká dunajská kotlina) situated in Slovakia. Great Hungarian Plain and Eastern Slovak Lowland are Pannonian Plain and plains of Slovakia.

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Eötvös Loránd University

Eötvös Loránd University (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE, also known as University of Budapest) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest.

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Eurasian nomads

The Eurasian nomads were groups of nomadic peoples living throughout the Eurasian Steppe, who are largely known from frontier historical sources from Europe and Asia.

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Eurasian Steppe

The Eurasian Steppe, also called the Great Steppe or The Steppes, is the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia in the temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome.

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Ferenc Móra

Ferenc Móra (19 July 1879 – 8 February 1934) was a Hungarian novelist, journalist, and museologist.

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Frigyes Korányi (physician)

Baron Frigyes Korányi de Tolcsva (Kornfeld; Nagykálló, 20 December 1828 – Budapest, 13 May 1913) was a Hungarian physician specializing in internal medicine, especially pulmonary medicine.

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Goulash

Goulash (gulyás) is a soup or stew of meat and vegetables seasoned with paprika and other spices.

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Gyula Juhász (poet)

Gyula Juhász (4 April 1883, Szeged – 6 April 1937, Szeged) was a Hungarian poet, who was awarded the Baumgarten Prize.

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Gyula, Hungary

Gyula (Jula; Jula or Giula) is a town in Békés County, Hungary.

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Hajdúság

Hajdúság is a historical and geographical region in Hungary, located in the Great Hungarian Plain around Debrecen. Great Hungarian Plain and Hajdúság are historical regions in Hungary.

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Hajdúszoboszló

Hajdúszoboszló is a town in Hajdú-Bihar county, Hungary, southwest of county seat Debrecen.

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Hallstatt culture

The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Western and Central European archaeological culture of the Late Bronze Age (Hallstatt A, Hallstatt B) from the 12th to 8th centuries BC and Early Iron Age Europe (Hallstatt C, Hallstatt D) from the 8th to 6th centuries BC, developing out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th century BC (Late Bronze Age) and followed in much of its area by the La Tène culture.

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Hortobágy National Park

Hortobágy is an 800 km2 national park in eastern Hungary, rich with folklore and cultural history. Great Hungarian Plain and Hortobágy National Park are historical regions in Hungary.

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Hungarians

Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Huns

The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th centuries AD.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.

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Jasz people

The Jász (Jazones) are a Hungarian subgroup of Eastern Iranic descent who have lived in Hungary since the 13th century.

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János Irinyi

János Irinyi (sometimes also spelled János Irínyi;; 18 May 1817 – 17 December 1895) was a Hungarian chemist and inventor of the noiseless and non-explosive match.

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Jászberény

Jászberény is a city and market centre in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in Hungary.

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Jászság

Jászság ("Jaszygia", Jazigia) is a historical, ethnographical and geographical region in Hungary. Great Hungarian Plain and Jászság are historical regions in Hungary.

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Körös culture

The Körös culture/Criș culture is a Neolithic archaeological culture in Central Europe that was named after the river Körös in eastern Hungary.

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Kiskunság

Kiskunság ("Little Cumania", Cumania Minor) is a historical and geographical region in Hungary situated in the current Bács-Kiskun between Kalocsa and Szeged. Great Hungarian Plain and Kiskunság are historical regions in Hungary and historical regions in the Kingdom of Hungary.

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Lactase persistence

Lactase persistence or lactose tolerance is the continued activity of the lactase enzyme in adulthood, allowing the digestion of lactose in milk.

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Lengyel culture

The Lengyel culture is an archaeological culture of the European Neolithic, centered on the Middle Danube in Central Europe.

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Linear Pottery culture

The Linear Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing.

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Little Hungarian Plain

The Little Hungarian Plain or Little Alföld (Hungarian: Kisalföld, Slovak: Malá dunajská kotlina, German: Kleine Ungarische Tiefebene) is a plain (tectonic basin) of approximately 8,000 km² in northwestern Hungary, south-western Slovakia (Podunajská nížina – Danubian Lowland), and eastern Austria. Great Hungarian Plain and Little Hungarian Plain are historical regions in the Kingdom of Hungary, Pannonian Plain, plains of Hungary and plains of Slovakia.

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Nagykörű

Nagykörű is a village in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary.

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Nagykunság

Nagykunság ("Greater Cumania", Cumania Major) is a historical and geographical region in Hungary situated in the current Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county between Szolnok and Debrecen. Great Hungarian Plain and Nagykunság are historical regions in Hungary and historical regions in the Kingdom of Hungary.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Orosháza

Orosháza is a city situated in the westernmost part of Békés county, Hungary, on the Békés ridge bordered by the rivers Maros and Körös.

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Pannonia

Pannonia was a province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia.

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Pannonian Avars

The Pannonian Avars were an alliance of several groups of Eurasian nomads of various origins.

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Pannonian Basin

The Pannonian Basin, or Carpathian Basin, is a large sedimentary basin situated in southeast Central Europe. Great Hungarian Plain and Pannonian Basin are geography of Vojvodina, Pannonian Plain, plains of Hungary, plains of Romania, plains of Serbia, plains of Slovakia and plains of Ukraine.

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Pannonian Steppe

The Pannonian Steppe is a variety of grassland ecosystems found in the Pannonian Basin. Great Hungarian Plain and Pannonian Steppe are Eurasian Steppe and plains of Hungary.

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Plain

In geography, a plain, commonly known as flatland, is a flat expanse of land that generally does not change much in elevation, and is primarily treeless.

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Pontic–Caspian steppe

The Pontic–Caspian Steppe is a steppe extending across Eastern Europe to Central Asia, formed by the Caspian and Pontic steppes. Great Hungarian Plain and Pontic–Caspian steppe are Eurasian Steppe.

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Racka

The Racka (pronounced Hungarian) or Hortobágy Racka Sheep is a breed of sheep known for its unusual spiral-shaped horns.

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Romanian language

Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.

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Sava

The Sava is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube.

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Sándor Petőfi

Sándor Petőfi (né Petrovics; Alexander Petrovič; Александар Петровић; 1 January 1823 – most likely 31 July 1849) was a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary.

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Scythians

The Scythians or Scyths (but note Scytho- in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained established from the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.

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Slavonia

Slavonia (Slavonija; Hungarian: Szlavónia) is, with Dalmatia, Croatia proper, and Istria, one of the four historical regions of Croatia.

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Steppe Route

The Steppe Route was an ancient overland route through the Eurasian Steppe that was an active precursor of the Silk Road. Great Hungarian Plain and Steppe Route are Eurasian Steppe.

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Syrmia

Syrmia (Ekavian separator or Ijekavian separator) is a region of the southern Pannonian Plain, which lies between the Danube and Sava rivers. Great Hungarian Plain and Syrmia are geography of Vojvodina.

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Szabolcs–Szatmár–Bereg County

Szabolcs–Szatmár–Bereg (Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg vármegye) is an administrative county (Hungarian: vármegye) in north-eastern Hungary, bordering Slovakia (Košice Region), Ukraine (Zakarpattia Oblast), and Romania (Bihor and Satu Mare counties).

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Szeged

Szeged (see also other alternative names) is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat of Csongrád-Csanád county.

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Szentes

Szentes is a town in south-eastern Hungary, Csongrád county, near the Tisza river.

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Szolnok

Szolnok (also known by alternative names) is the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in central Hungary.

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Tisza

The Tisza, Tysa or Tisa, is one of the major rivers of Central and Eastern Europe. It was once called "the most Hungarian river" because it used to flow entirely within the Kingdom of Hungary. Today, it crosses several national borders. The Tisza begins near Rakhiv in Ukraine, at the confluence of the and, which is at coordinates (the former springs in the Chornohora mountains; the latter in the Gorgany range). Great Hungarian Plain and Tisza are geography of Vojvodina.

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Tolna County

Tolna (Tolna vármegye,; Komitat Tolnau) is an administrative county (comitatus or vármegye) in present-day Hungary as it was in the former Kingdom of Hungary.

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Transdanubia

Transdanubia (Dunántúl; Transdanubien, Prekodunavlje or Zadunavlje, Zadunajsko) is a traditional region of Hungary. Great Hungarian Plain and Transdanubia are historical regions in Hungary and historical regions in the Kingdom of Hungary.

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Transdanubian Mountains

The Transdanubian Mountains (sometimes also referred to as Bakony Forest, Dunántúl Highlands, Highlands of Dunántúl, Highlands of Transdanubia, Mountains of Dunántúl, Mountains of Transdanubia, Transdanubian Central Range, Transdanubian Hills, Transdanubian Midmountains or Transdanubian Mid-Mountains) are a mountain range in Hungary covering about 7000 km2.

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Treaty of Trianon

The Treaty of Trianon (Traité de Trianon; Trianoni békeszerződés; Trattato del Trianon; Tratatul de la Trianon) often referred to as the Peace Dictate of Trianon or Dictate of Trianon in Hungary, was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed on the one side by Hungary and, on the other, by the Entente and Associated Powers in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920.

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Vienna Basin

The Vienna Basin (Wiener Becken, Vídeňská pánev, Viedenská kotlina, Hungarian: Bécsi-medence) is a geologically young tectonic burial basin and sedimentary basin in the seam area between the Alps, the Carpathians and the Pannonian Plain.

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Vojvodina

Vojvodina (Војводина), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia, located in Central Europe.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Zakarpattia Lowland

The Zakarpattia Lowland (Закарпа́тська низовина́ / Transcarpathian Lowland; Kárpátaljai-alföld) or Upper Tysa Lowland is a lowland in the southwestern portion of the Zakarpattia Oblast in the drainage basin of Tisza river and located on its right banks. Great Hungarian Plain and Zakarpattia Lowland are plains of Ukraine.

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Zoltán Lajos Bay

Zoltán Lajos Bay (July 24, 1900 in Gyulavári – October 4, 1992 in Washington, D.C.)"Fizikai Szemle 1999/5 - Zsolt Bor: OPTICS BY HUNGARIANS" (with Zoltán Bay), József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, 1999 was a Hungarian physicist, professor, and engineer who developed technologies, including tungsten lamps and microwave devices.

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