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Coloman the Learned, [1] [2] also the Book-Lover [3] or the Bookish [4] ( Hungarian: Könyves Kálmán; Croatian: Koloman; Slovak: Koloman Učený; c. 1070 – 3 February 1116) was King of Hungary from 1095 and King of Croatia from 1097 until his death. Because Coloman and his younger brother Álmos were underage when their father Géza I died ...
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Coloman (born c. 1070—died Feb. 3, 1116) was the king of Hungary from 1095 who pursued expansionist policies and stabilized and improved the internal order of Hungary. Coloman was the natural son of King Géza I by a Greek concubine. King Ladislas (László), his uncle, would have made him a monk, but Coloman refused and eventually escaped to ...
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Apr 23, 2024 · The winner of the battle, King Coloman of Hungary created a personal union between the kingdoms of Hungary and Croatia (allegedly signing the Pacta conventa). He was then crowned as King of Croatia in the Croatian capital Biograd on the Adriatic coast in 1102. Until the end of the World War I in 1918, the two crowns were united in personal union.
Civil wars and pagan uprisings, along with attempts by the Holy Roman emperors to expand their authority over Hungary, jeopardized the new monarchy. The monarchy stabilized during the reigns of Ladislaus I (1077–1095) and Coloman (1095–1116). These rulers occupied Croatia and Dalmatia with the support of a part of the local population.
Feb 25, 2021 · Hungary is a medium-sized, landlocked Central European country covering an area of 93,030 km2 (35,920 sq mi). As observed on the physical map of Hungary, it is mostly a flat country, dominated by the Great Hungarian Plain east of the Danube. The plain includes approximately 56% of the country's land. The terrain ranges from flat to rolling plains.
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TAKING OVER THE territory of Galicia was one of the aims of Andrew II's reign in Hungary (1205–35). The principality of Halych (a form of the Latinized name, Galicia) had formed during the twelfth century under the rule of Volodymerko (1124–53) and merged at the end of that century with Volhynia to create the principality of Galicia–Volhynia under Roman Mstislavich (1199–1205).
Jan 17, 2024 · Coloman was crowned king of Croatia in Biograd na Moru in 1102. In the 13th century, Thomas the Archdeacon wrote that the union of Croatia and Hungary was the consequence of conquest. However, the late 14th-century Pacta conventa narrates that he was only crowned after he had reached an agreement with twelve leading Croatian noblemen, because ...
