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Portrayal of Stephen I on the Hungarian coronation pall from 1031
Stephen I (c. 975 � 15 August 1038) was the last Grand Prince of the Hungarians and
the first King of Hungary (from 1000 or 1001 until his death). The first member of
his family to become a devout Christian, he married Gisela of Bavaria, a scion of
the imperial Ottonian dynasty. After succeeding his father in 997, Stephen had to
defend the throne, with aid from foreign knights, against his relative Kopp�ny. In
a series of wars against semi-independent tribes and chieftains�including the Black
Hungarians and his uncle, Gyula the Younger�Stephen unified the Carpathian Basin.
He established at least one archbishopric, six bishoprics and three Benedictine
monasteries, all independent of the archbishops of the Holy Roman Empire. Hungary
enjoyed lasting peace during his reign, and became a preferred route for pilgrims
and merchants traveling between Western Europe and the Holy Land or Constantinople.
Stephen was canonized by Pope Gregory VII in 1083. In Hungary, his feast day
(celebrated on 20 August) is a public holiday commemorating the foundation of the
state. (Full article...)

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718 � Forces of the Umayyad Caliphate abandoned their year-long siege of
Constantinople, causing the caliphate to give up its goal of conquering the
Byzantine Empire.
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Passiflora caerulea
A Passiflora caerulea flower, photographed at Ljubljana Botanical Garden in
Slovenia. This species of flowering plant is native to South America. It is a
vigorous, deciduous or semi-evergreen tendril vine, with palmate leaves and
fragrant, blue-white flowers with a prominent fringe of coronal filaments in bands
of blue, white, and brown. It may grow to 10 m (33 ft) or more.

Photograph: Petar Milo�evic

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