![]() ![]() ![]() Although written sources emphasize the role played by German and Italian knights and clerics in the process, a significant part of the Hungarian vocabulary for agriculture, religion and state was taken from Slavic languages. He reinforced central authority and forced his subjects to accept Christianity. The Kingdom of Hungary came into being when Stephen I, grand prince of the Hungarians, was crowned king in 1000 or 1001. Main article: Kingdom of Hungary (1000–1301) ![]() With his patronage Hungary became the first country which adopted the Renaissance from Italy. The first king of Hungary without dynastic ancestry was Matthias Corvinus (1458–1490), who led several successful military campaigns and also became the King of Bohemia and the Duke of Austria. His victory at Nándorfehérvár (present-day Belgrade, Serbia) in 1456 stabilized the southern frontiers for more than half a century. In the next decades, a talented military commander, John Hunyadi, directed the fight against the Ottomans. The expansion of the Ottoman Empire reached the kingdom under Sigismund of Luxemburg (1387–1437). ![]() The kingdom reached the peak of its power under Louis the Great (1342–1382) who led military campaigns against Lithuania, southern Italy and other faraway territories. Gold and silver mines opened in his reign produced about one third of the world's total production up until the 1490s. Royal power was restored under Charles I (1308–1342), a scion of the Capetian House of Anjou. In the Late Middle Ages, the Kingdom of Hungary, a country in Central Europe, experienced a period of interregnum in the early 14th century. ![]()
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