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Pest and Elisabeth Bridge as seen from Buda.

Pest (Hungarian pronunciation [ pɛʃt ]; formerly also written as Pesth ) was, along with Buda, one of the two cities that made Hungary's capital Budapest in 1873 . Before that, it was the seat of the administrative administration of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1723 .

Pest is located on the eastern, flat side on the banks of the Danube and occupies two thirds of the urban area of ​​Budapest.

Population development

• 1715: around 2500 inhabitants, of which 55.6% Germans , 19.4% Magyars (Hungarians), 2.2% Slovaks , 22.8% others
• 1737: Population na, thereof 57.8% Germans, 22.5% Magyars, 5.6% Slovaks, 14.1% others
• 1829: 62,471 inhabitants, including around 59,000 Germans, 1200 Slovaks, 1200 Magyars, 650 Serbs, 259 Greeks and 100 Romanians

Selection of personalities from Pest

• Johann Heinrich Freiherr von Schmitt (1744–1805), Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal
• Franz Xaver von Zach (1754–1832), Austro-German astronomer , geodesist , mathematician, science historian and officer
• József Hild (1789–1867), architect
• Ágoston Haraszthy (1812–1869), pioneer of viticulture in North America
• Charles Edouard Boutibonne (1816–1897), genre and portrait painter
• Georg Decker (1818–1894), watercolor painter and lithographer
• Gabriel Decker (1821–1855), portrait painter and lithographer
• Johann Böckh (1840–1909), geologist
• Imre Kiralfy (1845-1919), impresario and event manager
• József Kauser (1848–1919), architect
• József Hampel (1849–1913), archaeologist and museum curator
• Sigmund Lautenburg (1851–1918), theater actor, director and theater director
• Max Nordau (1849–1923), writer, politician and co-founder of political Zionism
• Károly Senyei (1854–1919), sculptor
• Manfréd Weiss (1857–1922), industrialist
• Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), writer, publicist and journalist, founder of political Zionism
• Mihály von Lenhossék (1863–1937), anatomist and university professor
• Ferenc Szárnovszky (1863–1903), sculptor and medalist
• Arthur Holitscher (1869–1941), travel writer, essayist, novelist, novelist and playwright
• Felix Salten (1869–1945), writer
• Károly Jordan (1871–1959), mathematician and statistician
• Antal Vágó (1891-1944), football player

Eponyms

In 1998 the asteroid (6817) Pest was named after the city.

Web links

Commons : Pest  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For later figures see Buda. Sources: Gustáv Beksics : Magyarosodás és magyarositás . Különös tekintettel városainkra. Budapest, 1883; A Pallas Nagy lexicon
2. ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 33386

Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '  N , 19 ° 6'  E