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Buda Castle: Then and Now

Palace of the Hungarian kings on Castle Hill, first built in the 13th century and destroyed and rebuilt several times, most recently after 1945.

Before
Buda Castle, before
Buda in the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). Michel Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Today
Buda Castle, today
Varius, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayHungary
StatusRebuilt
Date1265
Nearest city on the mapVienna (about 214 km)
Location47.496° N, 19.040° E
Map showing Buda Castle in 1200Buda Castle
Border map for 1200. See Europe in 1200.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–401 BCUnclaimed / no data
400 BC–324 BCHallstatt culture
323 BC–2 BCUnclaimed / no data
1 BC–299Bohemia (Marcomanni)
300–399Rome (Galerius)
400–499Western Roman Empire
500–599Ostrogoths
600–799Avars
800–899Slavonic tribes
900–999Great Moravia
1000–1099Magyars
1100–1399Hungary
1400–1491Kingdom of Hungary
1492–1599Royal Hungary
1600–1699Ottoman Empire
1700–1879Austrian Empire
1880–1913Austria Hungary
1914–1919Austro-Hungarian Empire
1920–todayHungary

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