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The city of
Székesfehérvár ,located in central Hungary, is one of the
largest cities in the country with about 100.000 inhebitants.
Székesfehérvár was the capital of Hungary in the Middle Ages.
It was one of the most important cities of Hungary. In the
Székesfehérvár Basilica, one of the largest basilicas in
medieval-Europe, where the Diets were held and the crown jewels
kept, thirty-seven kings and thirty-nine queens consort were
crowned and fifteen rulers buried.
The word szék (meaning
seat/throne) is related to its important role in the 1st
centuries of the Kingdom of Hungary: székhely means a (royal)
residence, center. In accordance of the obligation from the
Doctrine of the Holy Crown, the first kings of Hungary were
crowned and buried here.
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