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Buda (neighborhood) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 47 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 47.5000 decimal degrees |
Long: 019 02 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 19.0333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Joined with Pest only in the 19th century to form the modern city of Budapest. Former capital of the Kingdom of Hungary, located on slopes of Buda hills on right bank of the Danube; there was a Roman camp on this site since the time of Tiberius; was the capital of Pannonia inferior from 106 CE; fortified by Valerius I against Sarmatian attacks 4th cen. While Pest was mostly Hungarian in the 15th century, Buda had a German majority. |
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Buda (preferred,C,V)
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Óbuda (C,V)
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Aquincum (H,V,Latin,U,N)
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Acincum (H,V)
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Acinco (H,V)
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Acinus (H,V)
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Ak-ink (H,V,Celtic language,U)
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Budapest (inhabited place) (P) |
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Buda (neighborhood) (P) |
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neighborhood (preferred, C) |
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area has been settled since 3rd mill. BCE; Buda & Pest joined to form one city in 1872 |
inhabited place (H) |
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town (H) |
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Ancient Roman (H) |
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