Opposition Party (Hungary)
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The Opposition Party was a political party that came to prominence during the 1848–49 revolution in Hungary. By contemporary political standards, they represented the far-left in the Hungarian parliam
Revolutionary crowd in front of the Hungarian National Museum on 15 March 1848
The first 'popular representational' National Assembly in Pest in 1848
The first government of Hungary, the Batthyány Government (1st row:Lajos Batthyány 2nd row:Bertalan Szemere, Pál Esterházy 3rd row:Gábor Klauzál, Lajos Kossuth, Lázár Mészáros, 4th row:István Széchenyi, József Eötvös 5th row:Ferenc Deák)
Sándor Petőfi
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Sándor Petőfi was a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary. He is considered Hungary's national poet, and was one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He is the author of the Nemz
Opposition Party (Hungary)
…On the party formation meeting, Lajos Kossuth read out the party program that he had written. At the end of the meeting, the famous Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi declaimed his poem A nép nevében (In the name of the people). Ferenc Deák made the final version of the party program and named it Ellenzéki Nyilatkozat…
Portrait, 1848
25. 2025 May 28 Kiskőrös Laslovarga
Petőfi's parents (painted by Petrich Soma Orlay)
Petőfi's entry in the parish register in Latin (kept at the Kiskőrös Petőfi Museum)