Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)

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CONTENTS

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Dear Reader • \ i

The place where the plain, the mountains and the Danube meet • ij

Danubi Bend • vj Danube-Ipoly National Park • 17 Fish in the Danube • 18 Kompkötő Island, Buki Island and their surroundings • 19 Égető Island and its environs • / 9 Naszály Hill • 23 The educational path of the Gyada Field • 27 Calvary (Kálvária) • 28 The horse chestnut alley on the Danube bank • 28 The botanical garden of the Táncsics Mihály Secondary Agricultural School • 29

Civil environmentalist organizations • 29

What the archaeological findings tell us • ft

The millennia of the Prehistoric Age (700,000 BC-around the birth of Christ) »32 Celtic civilization at the end of the Prehistoric Age

(jth century BC-around the birth of Christ) *39 “Barbaric” people in the Danube Bend (ist-yth centuries AD) • 4t The Age of the Great Migration (jth-gth centuries AD) • 44

Vác in the Árpád era • 47

The Age of the Conquest • 48 The foundation of the Bishopric in Vác • jl Life in the town • 44 Vác through the eyes of a traveller • yj Kings, bishops and the chapter • jg The Mongol Invasion • 79 The revival of the town • 61