Pest
Name
Pest
Province/County/State
Budapest (special city)
Nations
Hungary (nation)
Descriptive Note Text
<Section of modern Budapest, joined with Buda as a city only in the 19th century. Located on a flat, featureless plain on the left bank of the Danube; developed as a Roman fort across the river from Aquincum (later Buda); grew into town of Pest during Middle Ages.> (Getty TGN)
Best, Buda, and Óbuda united to give birth to Budapest city in 1873.
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