Hajós György: Heroes' Square - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2001)

sylvania. They were defeated by Ladislas’s troops in the battle of the Temes, which is where the episode comes from.)

Koloman “the Bookish” - Richárd Füredi, 1912 Relief - Károly Antal: King Koloman forbids the burning of witches. (At the 1100 synod of Tarcal, the king created a new codex whose 57th paragraph decrees that “Against witches, who do not exist, there will be no lawsuits filed.”)

Andrew II - Károly Senyei, 1912 Relief - György Zala: Andrew II leads a crusade to liberate Jerusalem (between October 1217 and January 1218).

Béla IV - Miklós Köllő, 1905

Relief- György Zala: Béla rebuilds the country after the Mongol conquest (In 1240-42 the Mongols devastated Hungary. The king returns to find the country in ruins.)

Charles Robert - György Kiss, 1905 Relief - György Zala: the Morva-field battle. (This is the only relief not connected to the king standing above it. In the battle the Hungarian army vanquished Ottokar King of Bohemia in August 1278. Charles Robert did not ascend the throne of Hungary until 30 years later in 1308.)

Louis the Great - György Zala, 1927

Relief - György Zala: Louis the Great marches into

Maples (24 January 1348).

János Hunyadi - Ede Margó, 1906 Relief - György Zala: Hunyadi’s victory at Nándorfehérvár halts the Turkish approach (July 1456).

King Matthias - György Zala, 1905

Relief- György Zala: King Matthias with his scholars.

István Bocskai - Barnabás Holló, 1903 Relief- László Marton: Bocskai’s Haiduk soldiers engaging the emperor’s troops in battle. (The Haiduk defeated the imperial forces at Diószeg on 15 October 1604.)

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