Pécs: Early Christian graves to Ottoman mosques | Hungary #7

The first of two videos of my visit to Pécs. Pécs is one of the most interesting places in Hungary. This area has been inhabited for a long time and the peoples who lived here have left their marks. Pécs was known in Roman times as Sopianae. The plural form of the name suggests that it started out as a cluster of settlements. The first wall around the fortress (now the site of the cathedral and the episcopal palace) was built in the 4th century CE and some significant remains of this era can still be seen today. Pécs developed in the Middle Ages and was then known as Quinque Ecclesiae which means 'Five Churches'. The Ottomans captured Pécs in 1529. Two mosques built during this era survive today and are the prime examples of Turkish architecture in Hungary.

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