Zalavár

Coordinates: 46°40′12″N 17°09′25″E / 46.66996°N 17.15683°E / 46.66996; 17.15683
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Zalavár
Village
Remains of the Romanesque basilica in Zalavár
Remains of the Romanesque basilica in Zalavár
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
8392
Area code(+36) 83
Websitewww.zalavar.hu

Zalavár is a village in south-western Hungary, located in Zala County. It is located around 9 km (6 mi) southwest of Lake Balaton.

Name

According to written sources the settlement was called 'Mosapurc' in the 9th century, "Mosapurc regia civitate".[2] It was also known as Moosburg, Urbs Paludarum, Braslavespurch[3] and Blatengrad in medieval records. The medieval settlement is known in modern sources as Blatnohrad (Slovak), Blatnograd, Блатноград (Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian). Ján Kollár called it Salavár in his travel book and described the state of the ruins in 1841.

History

In the 9th century, Mosapurc or Moosburg

Glagolitic alphabet
) and literature, educating numerous future missionaries in their native language.

Battle of Pressburg

It is claimed that Urbs Paludarum, Brazlavo's burg (Moosburg), was the site of the Battle of Pressburg, instead of Bratislava.[5] The only contemporary source mentioning a location of the battle is the Annales iuvavenses maximi (Annals of Salzburg); however, the reliability of these annals is questionable, as they survive only in fragments copied in the 12th century.[6] According to the annals, the battle took place in the vicinity of Brezalauspurc, the castle of Duke Brazlavo (Braslav), located west of Lake Balaton.[7]

Gallery

  • Millennial Monument (built by Imre Makovecz in 2009)
    Millennial Monument (built by Imre Makovecz in 2009)
  • Sculptures of Saints Cyril and Methodius (erected in 2013)
    Sculptures of Saints Cyril and Methodius (erected in 2013)
  • Tree of Life in the Millennial Monument (erected in 2011)
    Tree of Life in the Millennial Monument (erected in 2011)

References

  1. ^ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
  2. ^ Charles R. Bowlus, Franks, Moravians, and Magyars: the struggle for the Middle Danube, 788-907, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995, p. 220
  3. ISBN 9789004298460
  4. ^ Richard A. Fletcher, The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity, University of California Press, 1999, p. 348
  5. ^ Bowlus, Charles R. (1995). Franks, Moravians, and Magyars: The Struggle for the Middle Danube, 788-907. pp. 258–259.
  6. ^ Timothy Reuter, Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056 (New York: Longman, 1991), 138–139.
  7. ISBN 9780754654704
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