Esztergom is a city with county rights in northern Hungary, 46 kilometres northwest of the capital Budapest.
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13 Facts About Esztergom
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Esztergom is the seat of the primas of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary, and the former seat of the Constitutional Court of Hungary.
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Esztergom tried to explain it from Istrogranum, "city at the confluence of Ister and Gran ".
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The archbishop of Esztergom was the leader of the ten bishoprics founded by Stephen.
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Bela IV and his family were buried in the Franciscan church in Esztergom which had been destroyed during the invasion and which had been rebuilt by Bela IV in 1270.
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Esztergom had a library and an observatory built next to the cathedral.
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Esztergom had a double garden constructed, which was decorated with columns and a corridor above them.
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Esztergom put foreign mercenaries in the castle, and sent the chapter and the bishopric to Nagyszombat and Pozsony .
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Esztergom became the centre of an Ottoman sanjak controlling several counties, and a significant castle on the northwest border of the Ottoman Empire – the main clashing point to prevent attacks on the mining towns of the highlands, Vienna and Buda.
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Two forced labor units, whose members were mainly Esztergom Jews, were executed en masse near Agfalva, on the Austrian border in January 1945.
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Esztergom was repopulated by mostly ethnic Hungarians, some Germans and Slovaks in the late 17th and the early 18th centuries.
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