After failure against Croatian soldiers, Mongols retreated and Béla IV awarded Croatian towns and nobility.

Vinko Žganec, an associate of Béla Bartók, collected more than 19, 000 Croatian folk songs.

Bela Čikoš Sesija ( Hungarian: Csikós-Sessia Béla );( Osijek, January 27, 1864 – 1931 ) was a Croatian painter of historical and allegorical scenes at the turn of the 20th century.

( Vak ) Béla, Slovak: Belo II, Croatian: Bela II.

* Béla Fleck & Howard Levy for Life in Eleven ( Bela Fleck & The Flecktones – Rocket Science )

Otto III, Duke of Bavaria became Bela V of Hungary, taking the name of his maternal grandfather, Béla IV of Hungary.

A gypsy fortuneteller named Maleva ( Maria Ouspenskaya ) reveals to Larry that the animal which bit him was actually her son Bela ( Béla Lugosi ) in the form of a wolf.

* Béla Lugosi as Bela

File: Coa Hungary Country History Bela III ( 1172-1196 ). svg | Coat of arms of Hungary under king Béla III

Though his name technically references actor Béla Lugosi, who played the werewolf responsible for infecting Lawrence Talbot with Lycanthropy in the 1941 Wolf Man film, this is merely consistent with the original film, where the character's name was also ' Bela '.

He was the younger son of King Béla III of Hungary, who invested him with the government of the Principality of Halych.

Andrew was the second son of King Béla III and his first wife, Agnes of Antioch.

Nevertheless, when Prince Vladimir II Yaroslavich of Halych, who had been expelled from his country by his subjects, fled to Hungary seeking for assistance in 1188, King Béla III had him arrested and occupied his principality and he invested Andrew with Halych.

On 23 April 1196, King Béla III died and he left the Kingdom of Hungary unportioned to his eldest son, Emeric, while Andrew inherited a large amount of money in order to fulfill his father's Crusader oath.

The junior King Béla IV started, with the authorization of Pope Honorius III, to take back the royal domains in his provinces that Andrew had granted to his partisans during the first half of his reign.

After a successful campaign Manuel I and Andronikos returned together to Constantinople ( 1168 ); but a year later, Andronikos refused to take the oath of allegiance to the future king Béla III of Hungary, whom Manuel desired to become his successor.

Their son, Béla III, was born on August 22, 1910.

During the final year of communist Hungary in the late 1980s, the Hungarian government, along with his two sons, Béla III and Péter, requested that his remains be exhumed and transferred back to Budapest for burial, where Hungary arranged a state funeral for him on July 7, 1988.

Philip pushed the case further when King Béla III of Hungary asked for the widow's hand in marriage, and thus her dowry had to be returned, to which Henry finally agreed.

When they were in Hungary, Barbarossa personally asked the Hungarian Prince Géza, brother of the king, Béla III of Hungary, to join the Crusade.

* Béla III of Hungary sacks the city of Belgrade.

After receiving provisions from the Hungarian king, the armies continued the march to the East ( the good relationships between both kingdoms continued flourishing, and decades later Louis's daughter Margaret was taken as wife by Géza's son Béla III of Hungary ).

* Margaret ( 1158 – August / September 1197 ), married ( 1 ) Henry the Young King ; ( 2 ) King Béla III of Hungary

In January 1186 Isaac himself married Margaret of Hungary ( renamed Maria ), daughter of King Béla III.

With Constance he had a daughter, Agnes of Châtillon, in 1154 ( who later married the Hungarian Prince Béla, who was living at the court of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus in Constantinople, and eventually became King Béla III of Hungary ).

Birkenmeier believes that the army contained 25, 000 Byzantine troops and the rest included an allied contingent of Hungarians sent by Manuel's kinsman Béla III of Hungary and tributary forces supplied by the Principality of Antioch and Serbia.

In 1199 Ottokar divorced his wife Adelheid of Meissen, a member of the Wettin dynasty, in order to marry Constance of Hungary, the young daughter of the Hungarian King Béla III.

His maternal grandparents were Béla III of Hungary and his second wife Agnes of Antioch ( Agnes de Châtillon ).

The coat of arms of Hungary depicts a double cross, which is often attributed to Byzantine influence as King Béla III of Hungary was raised in the Byzantine Empire in the 12th century, and it was during his rule when the double cross became a symbol of Hungary.

The first requirement ( coronation by the Archbishop of Esztergom ) was confirmed by Béla III, who had been crowned by the Archbishop of Kalocsa based on the special authorisation of Pope Alexander III, but after his coronation he declared that his coronation would not harm the customary claim of the Archbishops of Esztergom to crown the kings.

* Béla III of Hungary

The Anonymous Notary of King Béla II ( 1131-1141 ) or Béla III ( 1172-1196 ) also mention the presence of Vlachs in Pannonia and them mixing with Slavs, but retaining their language and culture.

His father, Béla Sr., considered himself thoroughly Hungarian, because on his father's side the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsod county ( Móser 2006a, 44 ; Bartók 1981, 13 ), though his mother was from a Roman Catholic Serbian family ( Bayley 2001, 16 ).

His oldest son, Béla Bartók, Jr., remained in Hungary where he survived the war and later worked as a railroad official until his retirement in the early 1980s.

In 1233, Béla IV of Hungary began to use the title " King of Cumania " which expressed the rule over the territories settled by the Cumans ( i. e., Wallachia and Moldavia ) at that time.

He completed his Ph. D., with a dissertation entitled Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces, at the University of Cambridge ( Trinity College ) in 1990, under the supervision of Béla Bollobás.

In 1164 and 1165, Béla followed the Emperor Manuel I on his campaigns against Hungary which aimed at the occupation of Béla's " paternal inheritance ", i. e., Croatia, Dalmatia and the Szerémség.

Béla Bartók is noted for his use of arch form, e. g., in his Fourth and Fifth string quartets, Concerto for Orchestra, Second Piano Concerto, and, to a lesser extent, in his Second Violin Concerto ( ibid ).

Vojtech Alexander ( Slovak ), Alexander Béla ( Hungarian ) ( 1857, Késmárk – 1916, Budapest ) was Slovak radiologist, one of the most influential radiologists in the world.

* Stephen IV of Hungary ( c. 1133 – 1165 ), third son of King Béla II

Concertos and concert works for two pianos have been written by Bach ( two to four pianos, BWV 1060-65, actually harpsichord concertos, but often performed on pianos ), Mozart ( two, K 242 ( originally for three pianos and orchestra ) and K 365 ), Mendelssohn ( two, 1823-4 ), Bruch ( 1912 ), Béla Bartók ( 1927 / 1932, a reworking of his Sonata for two pianos and percussion ), Poulenc ( 1932 ), Arthur Benjamin ( 1938 ), Peter Mieg ( 1939-41 ), Darius Milhaud ( 1941 and 1951 ), Bohuslav Martinů ( 1943 ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( c. 1946 ), Roy Harris ( 1946 ), Gian Francesco Malipiero ( two works, both 1957 ), Walter Piston ( 1959 ), Luciano Berio ( 1973 ), and Harald Genzmer ( 1990 ).

Béla I the Champion or the Bison (; ;, c. 1016 – 1063 ) was King of Hungary from 1060 until his death.

# Duke Béla of Slavonia ( c. 1245 – 1269 )

* Berend, Nóra – Laszlovszky, József – Szakács, Béla Zsolt: The Kingdom of Hungary ; in: Berend, Nora ( Editor ): Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus ’ c. 900-1200 ; Cambridge University Press, 2007, Cambridge & New York ; ISBN 978-0-521-87616-2