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City Page about Budapest

Basic Information about Budapest:
Location: Situated in Central Hungary on the River Danube
Capital: is the capital of Hungary
Population: The city proper is home to about 1,700,000 inhabitants
National Language: Hungarian
Currency: Hungarian Forint (HUF)
(Approximate rates - 1 USD = 223 HUF, 1 EUR = 295 HUF )
Religion: Roman Catholic, Atheist and a few others

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Short Overview of History:

•	As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre
•	Cited as one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, its extensive World Heritage Site includes the banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter, Andrassy Avenue, Heroes' Square and the Millennium Underground Railway, the second oldest in the world!
•	Other highlights include a total of 80 geothermal springs, the world's largest thermal water cave system, second largest synagogue, and third largest Parliament building.
•	The city attracts about 2.3 million tourists a year

•	The history of Budapest began with Aquincum, originally a Celtic settlement that became the Roman capital of Lower Pannonia. Magyars arrived in the territory in the 9th century. Their first settlement was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241-42
•	The re-established town became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture in the 15th century. Following the Battle of Mohacs and nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule, development of the region entered a new age of prosperity in the 18th and 19th centuries, and Budapest became a global city after the 1873 unification
•	It also became the second capital of Austria-Hungary, a great power that dissolved in 1918. Budapest was the focal point of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, Operation Panzerfaust in 1944, the Battle of Budapest of 1945, and the Revolution of 1956
•	Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the river Danube with a unification on 17 November 1873 of west-bank Buda and Obuda with east-bank Pest

•	Budapest is Hungary's main centre of education and home to numerous universities
•	The city is home to the largest synagogue in Europe and second largest working in the World
•	The city is also proud at the largest medicinal bath in Europe (Szechenyi Medicinal Bath) and the third largest Parliament building in the world, once the largest in the world.

Please choose the program of your interest in Hungary, Budapest:

Corvinus Univesity in Budapest:

Fall Semester (September - December)
Spring Semester (February - June)

Also, we have two more European locations:Poland and Czech Republic:

Jagiellonian Univesity in Krakow:

Fall Semester (September - December)
Spring Semester (February - June)
Summer Semester (June, July)

Anglo-American Univesity in Prague:

Fall Semester (September - December)
Winter Short-Term Intersession (January)
Spring Semester (February - June)
Summer Semester (June, July)

Charles Univesity in Prague:

Fall Semester (September - December)
Spring Semester (February - June)
Summer Semester (June, July)

Univesity of Economics in Prague:

Fall Semester (September - December)
Spring Semester (February - June)
Summer Semester (June, July)

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