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Budapest
[ boo-duh-pest, boo-duh-pest; Hungarian boo-do-pesht ]
noun
- a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube Buda and Obuda and one on the E bank Pest.
Budapest
/ ËŒbjuËdəˈpÉ›st; ˈbudÉ”pɛʃt /
noun
- the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1Â 719Â 342 (2003 est)
Budapest
- Capital of Hungary and largest city in the country, located in north-central Hungary on both banks of the Danube River ; the industrial, cultural, and transportation center of Hungary.
Example Sentences
Glory in Glasgow came at only her second global championship, having announced herself on the world stage by finishing fifth in Budapest the previous summer.
They blocked off central Budapest's Margaret Bridge while staring down a police cordon.
That morning, the woman had flown from Luton to Budapest to locate the mark.
The station was part of the government's flagship infrastructure project - the high-speed railway linking the capital, Belgrade, to Budapest in Hungary.
Pressman leaves Budapest next week, after two and a half years spent as an unusually active diplomat, travelling the country and frequently criticising the Orban government.
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