Short history

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. Its history began with Aquincum, which was originally a celtic settlement, but became the roman capital of Lower Pannonia around AD 106. The old ruins are still visible in the 3th district of Budapest.
The hungarians arrived in the 9th century. They got rid the wild mongol tribes, and re-estabilished the town, which became one of the biggest central of the renessaince humanist Europe.
Hungary was under the Ottoman forces for 150 years in the 15th century, and belonged to the Habsburg Empire from the late 19th century till 1918.
After the World War I., in 1920, Hungary lost 72% of its former territory. The twenieth century haven't bring luck for this country: After the World War II. the soviet forces invaded to the territory of Hungary (in 1945), and kept up the invasion till 1989, when the Soviet Union simply collapsed, and the russian soldiers went home.
We must also mention the great revolution against the soviets in 1956, what unfortunaly failed after two weeks.
Third Hungarian Republic finally had been proclaimed in May, 1990.

But Hungary is not the place only for suffering, invasions, wars or terror: hungarians never gave up their dreams about freedom and liberty. Through the centuries the nation always had been very opened to the european culture.

The Parliament House by the side of the Danube. It was buildet between 1885-1906. 

Still the biggest building in Hungary.

Zeppelin over Budapest in 1931

(picture from Budapest Anno)

Boeing 767 over the Danube, 2010