Sopron
Sopron , Ger. Ödenburg, city (1991 est. pop. 55,140), NW Hungary, near the Austrian border. It is a tourism and commercial center with fruit-preserving, sugar-refining, and cotton textile industries. Originally a Celtic settlement called Scarabantia, it became a military outpost under the Romans. Hungarians settling the area in the 10th and 11th cent. made the city an important fortress. Sopron was the site of the coronation of King (later emperor) Ferdinand III of Hungary and Bohemia in 1625 and a meeting place of the Hungarian Parliament in 1681. Part of the Burgenland , it was transferred to Austria after World War I but was returned to Hungary after a plebiscite (1921). Sopron is one of the oldest cultural centers in Hungary; it has a university, three 13th-century churches, and a 15th-century palace. Franz Liszt was born at nearby Dobojan.
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Just ask.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland); 11/25/2007; 658 words
; Byline: MARGRET CAMPBELL Q WHO is the Molotov cocktail named after? - Ian Shankland, by email. A WOULD you believe, a Mr Molotov? Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov was a Soviet politician, diplomat and a protege...
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/21/1999; 316 words
; Q. How were Molotov cocktails named? A.K., Swampscott A. The "cocktail...fighting the Russians in 1940. After Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov concluded the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in 1940 with the Germans and invaded...
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Anniversaries:11th & 12th November
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/11/1995; 455 words
; Anniversaries TODAY: Births: Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, author, 1821; Paul Signac, painter...Vernon Connolly, writer and critic, 1974; Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Skriabin), Russian leader, 1986; Eamonn...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/11/1999; 521 words
; ...and founder of physiognomics, 1741; Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, author, 1821; John George Brown...James Hanley, novelist and playwright, 1985; Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Skriabin), Russian leader, 1986; Eamonn...
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Pro-Life With an Asterisk
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/10/2001; ; 700+ words
; Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, once Stalin's foreign minister...from the public. When Stalin ordered Molotov's wife jailed and cruelly put the...to a vote of the party leadership, Molotov -- sensing a conflict of interest...
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Memory of historical meeting
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 2/18/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Foreign Secretary Anthony Robert Eden crossed the conference room to shake hands with Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister. Molotov then introduced Eden to Zhou, and Eden and Zhou warmly shook hands. After the session...
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Behind the symbolism
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 2/13/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...his "pro-Western" Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov (alias Meir Moiseevitch Wallach) with Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, who in August 1939 signed the infamous nonaggression pact with Germany's Ribbentrop. In Egypt for the...
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Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov The Soviet statesman Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (1890-1986) was second in command during Stalin's regime and served as the chief Soviet diplomat in World War II. Vyacheslav Molotov was born on March 9...
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Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
MOLOTOV, VYACHESLAV MIKHAILOVICH (1880 – 1986), Russian...as Stalin's chief lieutenant. Vyacheslav Molotov was born at Kukarka, Nolinsk district...manager of the village store. Molotov's real name was Skryabin; he...
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Molotov, Vyacheslav (Mikhailovich)
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Molotov, Vyacheslav (Mikhailovich) (born Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin ) (1890–1986) Soviet statesman. Born in Russia, he was an early member of the Bolsheviks and a staunch supporter of Stalin after Lenin's death. As Commissar...
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Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...by Ribbentrop for Germany and Molotov for the USSR on August 23...Litvinov and the appointment of Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov as commissar for foreign affairs...traditional interpretation that Molotov was pro-German, and that...
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Anti-Party Group
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...attack on Stalin and Stalinism, Molotov, Malenkov, and Kaganovich...malenkov, georgy maximilyanovich; molotov vyacheslav mikhailovich bibliography Linden, Carl A...Resis, Albert, ed. (1993). Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics...
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