* September – In Hungary, Eger is defended against the Turks the captain of the castle was István Dobó.

The Five Bridges suite, commissioned for the Newcastle Arts Festival, was premiered with a full orchestra conducted by Joseph Eger on 10 October 1969 ( the recorded version is from 17 October in Croydon's Fairfield Hall ).

Connected with this group are the Eger, the Donaueschingen, Augsburg, Freising and Lucerne Passion Plays, in which the whole world drama, beginning with the creation of man and brought down to the coming of the Holy Ghost, is exhibited, and which was produced with great splendour as late as 1583.

Consequently it is a fault-block mountain range which, today, has been incised by a whole range of river valleys whose rivers drain southwards into the Eger and northwards into the Mulde or directly into the Elbe.

As well as Villány and Szekszárd, Cabernet Franc is also present in Eger, and-to a lesser extent-in South Balaton and Sopron vineyards.

In the west there is a good transport link to the nearby city of Bayreuth, whilst in the east, in the Egerland ( capital: Eger, Czech: Cheb ), communication is still very limited, a legacy of the Iron Curtain.

It is situated on the river Ohře ( also called Eger in German ), at the foot of one of the spurs of the Smrčiny and near the border with Germany.

Žatec lies on the Ohře River ( Eger ), which is spanned here by a suspension bridge, 64 m ( 210 ft ) long, which is the oldest of its kind in Bohemia, having been constructed in 1826.

Bélapátfalva is a town in Heves county, in Hungary, located north of the city of Eger.

Mátra is a mountain range in northern Hungary, between the towns Gyöngyös and Eger.

The history of this party is centered on the cities of Eger ( German for present-day Cheb ) and Aussig ( Ústí nad Labem ), it originated and gave the impetus for Austrian National Socialism.

After World War II, the territory of the county was modified: the region around Pásztó is now in Nógrád county, the area on the left bank of the Tisza ( Tiszafüred ) is now in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, and an area north of Eger was taken from Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county.

blue Frankish ) and is grown in a number of wine regions including Sopron, Villány, Szekszárd, and Eger ( where it is a major ingredient in the famous red wine blend known as Egri Bikavér ( lit.

The Ohře ( German: Image: Ltspkr. png Eger, Czech also: Oharka or Ohara, Celtic: Agara, ) is a 316 km long river in Germany ( 65 km ) and the Czech Republic ( 251 km ), left tributary of the Elbe.

35 km, the Eger ( not to be confused with the town in Hungary ), as the river is called in German, crosses the border to Czech Republic to flow through parts of Bohemia which were known until 1945 as Egerland.

In 1671 the name was used by Meni, the beglerbeg pasha of Eger in what is today Hungary, to denote the predominantly noble refugees from Royal Hungary.

It is thought that there may be a genetic connection between 434 Hungaria and 3103 Eger and the aubrites.

The Archdiocese of Eger () is an archdiocese in Northern Hungary, its centre is the city of Eger.

The name of the city was in 1061 recorded as Egire ; in 1179 it was known as Egra ; from 1322 as Eger and the surrounding territory as Regio Egere and Provincia Egrensis ; after the 14th century also as Cheb or Chba.

It also made foundations in Argentina from 1914 and more solidly since 1921 ; Transvaal in South Africa since 1935, Uruguay 1939, Bolivia 1946, Mexico 1948, Australia 1951, Venezuela 1952, Colombia 1953, India 1974, Mozambique 1984, Philippines 1985, Uganda, Albania 1993, and also the refoundations in Hungary ( Eger ) and the Czech Republic.

* Modern day Czech Republic / Bavaria: Austrian geographers also marked the 939 metre high Tillenberg ( Dyleň ) near the Bohemian city of Eger / Cheb with a copper plate as the centre of Europe.

He studied also in Vienna and in Eger and probably also in Italy.

The monastery also had a scriptorium ; one of the codices created here had been copied by a monk named László for the Church on the Avas Hill, now held in the archives of Eger.

Népkert is also a colloquial name of the park Érsekkert ( Archbishop's Garden ) in Eger.

: Agria is also the Latin name of Eger in Hungary

* Königsberg an der Eger, German name for Kynšperk nad Ohří in the Czech Republic

Rivers rising from the Fichtelgebirge are the White Main ( German: Weißer Main ), the Saxon Saale, the Ohře ( German: Eger ) and the Fichtelnaab which later joins the Waldnaab.

People of Eger greeting German soldiers with Hitler salute in October 1938

Glotz was born in Eger, Sudetenland ( now Cheb, Czech Republic ), to a German father and a Czech mother.

Hence, the political programs of the Sudetenland and the Austrian national socialist parties addressed their particular discontents with the Habsburg monarchic society ; thus the development of ideologically discrete German Worker parties in Vienna, Aussig, and Eger.

Franko Stein of Eger ( Cheb ) and an apprentice bookbinder Ludwig Vogel of Brüx organized the Deutschnationaler Arbeiterbund ( German National Workers ' League ) in 1893.

* 1898 German Workers Congress organized by Stein in Eger ( Cheb ).

Most editions of the Talmud include brief marginal notes by Akiva Eger under the name Gilyonot ha-Shas, and textual notes by Joel Sirkes and the Vilna Gaon ( see Textual emendations below ), on the page together with the text.

The records show the name as Agara, Agira, Agra in 800s and Egire, Egra or Ogra in 1000s and Eger in 1472.

* Jager, an alternative name for Eger in Hungary

It comes from the Eger wine region of northern Hungary ; the Szekszárd region produces a similar wine with similar name ( Szekszárdi Bikavér ) but with different character.

In 1596, Eger fell to the Ottomans for the same reason.

Ottoman defeats in the war caused Mehmed III to take personal command of the army, the first sultan to do so since Suleyman I. Mehmed III's armies conquered Eger in 1596 and defeated the Habsburg and Transylvanian forces at the Battle of Keresztes ( Turkish for Battle of Hacova ) during which the Sultan had to be dissuaded from fleeing the field halfway through the battle.

After capturing the fortress of Eger ( Cheb ) on 19 April 1742, he received a leave of absence, and went to Russia to push his claims for the Duchy of Courland, but returned to his command after getting nowhere.

As Archbishop of Esztergom, Olahus exercised a supervision over the Diocese of Eger, and ( with the consent of the Holy See ) administered the Archdiocese of Kalocsa, vacant for 20 years.

The earlier was the case with towns inhabited by Germans since the early Middle Ages until the end of Second World War, for instance Breslau, Eger, Hermannstadt or Stettin.

Historically, it is known for its repelling of the Turkish attack in 1552 during the Siege of Eger.