Hungary is situated in the Carpathian Basin in Central Europe. It’s capital Budapest is known as one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. A great power until the end of World War I, Hungary lost about 70 percent of its territory, one third of its ethnic Hungarian population, and all its sea ports under the Treaty of Trianon.
Home of the Magyars, it is a country of great beauty and a rich heritage of literature, arts, food and culture.
I wondered for a long time about the journey of our ancestor Zsigmond Edes. It made sense when you see that his life moved along the Danube. starting in Komarom in 1830 in northern Hungary (now across the border in present day Slovakia) he moved to Vukovar just south of the border in Croatia where in 1858 he married Julianna Vill who had been born in Apatin just on the other bank of the Danube in Serbia.
I borrowed this photo from this lovely blog post; The Danube always makes a huge impression on me.
Julianna was the second wife of great-grandfather István and stepmother to Krisztina’s. After the death of his first wife, Teréz in March 1903, István married 26 year old Julianna Lázár from nearby Zala-Apáti in July. Julianna raised Teréz’s 3 children and had 6 more children with István.