Hungarian Mining in the 20th Century

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MISKOLC is situated in the north eastern part of Hungary at the so-called Miskolc Gate, where the mountains of the Highlands become hills and the Sajó and the Hernád rivers flow towards the Great Hungárián Plain. From the hill of Miskolc, the Avas, which is little higher than 200 meters, a beautiful view opens up to the surrounding area: to the north are the 2000 meter high peaks of the Tatras, and to the south the infinite expanse of the Great Hungárián Plain while to the west the Bükk mountains climb over the horizon, and to the east the massive Tokaj hill can be seen above the royal wine-distrkt. Here, at the intersection of the two geographical regions, lies today's Miskolc, which - over several centuries of development - has grown out of a dozen settlements - to become the second-third largest town in Hungary. The town - as a result of its geographical situation - has been a commercial centre for thousands of years. It was one of the leading towns of Hungárián wine production... Tovább

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MISKOLC is situated in the north eastern part of Hungary at the so-called Miskolc Gate, where the mountains of the Highlands become hills and the Sajó and the Hernád rivers flow towards the Great Hungárián Plain. From the hill of Miskolc, the Avas, which is little higher than 200 meters, a beautiful view opens up to the surrounding area: to the north are the 2000 meter high peaks of the Tatras, and to the south the infinite expanse of the Great Hungárián Plain while to the west the Bükk mountains climb over the horizon, and to the east the massive Tokaj hill can be seen above the royal wine-distrkt. Here, at the intersection of the two geographical regions, lies today's Miskolc, which - over several centuries of development - has grown out of a dozen settlements - to become the second-third largest town in Hungary. The town - as a result of its geographical situation - has been a commercial centre for thousands of years. It was one of the leading towns of Hungárián wine production and export till the end of the 19th century. No considerable historical events are attached to its name, although the royal castle of Diósgyőr was one of the favourite residences of Hungárián kings and queens in the Middle Ages. It was here that Louis of Anjou (1342-1382) retified the peace treaty of Turin with Venice and received foreign envoys after being crowned king of Poland. The area is famous for its coal mining and irón industry in the 19th-20th centuries, which led to the establishement of its university in 1949, today called the UNIVERSITY OF MISKOLC. The roots of the Alma Mater, however, go back to much longer, to the age of the birth of technical higher education at the beginning of the 18th century. The Court Treasury of Vienna established in 1735 a Mining School at Selmecbánya in Lower Hungary, which was developed into a Mining Academy with three years of studies by the order of the Hungárián Queen in 1762-1770. The Alma Mater, which operated under the name College of Mining and Forestry from 1904, was moved to Sopron in western Hungary as the Trianon Peace Treaty gave Selmecbánya to the newly established Czechoslovakia. From 1934 it worked as the faculty of mining, metallurgy and forestry of the national university of technology and economics. In 1949-59 the training of mining and metaHurgical engineers was moved to Miskolc. The Technical University of Heavy Industry had three faculties: of mining engineering, metalluigical engineering and mechanical engineering. The training profilé was widenened in 1981 to include training in law, in 1987/90 to include training in economics and in 1992 training in the humanities was added, which led to changing the name to the University of Miskolc in 1990. Vissza