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Extract from the Esztergom Travel Guides:
Beautifully situated in a crook of the Danube facing Slovakia,
ESZTERGOM
, 25km on from Visegrd, is dominated by its basilica, whose dome is visible for miles around. The sight is richly symbolic, since it was here that Prince Gza and his son Vajk (the future king and saint Stephen) brought Hungary into the fold of Roman Catholic (not Orthodox) Christendom, in the nation's first cathedral. Even after the court moved to Buda following the Mongol invasion, Esztergom remained the
centre of Catholicism
until the Turkish conquest, when the clergy dispersed to safer towns and it became an Ottoman stronghold, besieged by Chr...
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