Dorottya Magyar

Hungary - a landlocked country at the centre of Europe - has an interesting and colourful history which includes a period of Turkish rule from the middle of the sixteenth century to the close of the seventeenth, the subsequent rise and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the restoration of independence after the First World War. Many famous battles have thrown up stories of heroism and great sacrifice, but perhaps none more so than the Battle of Eger - a conflict of 1552 which saw the Hungarian army defeat the Turkish forces.