Pecs

Pecs is the fifth biggest metropolis of Hungary, located at the slopes of the Mecsek mountains inside the south-west of the country., close to its border with Croatia. It is the administrative and economic centre of Baranya County. Pécs is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pecs. The city Sopianae became founded by means of Romans at the beginning of the second century, in an area peopled through Celts and Pannoni tribes. By the 4th century, it became the capital of Valeria province and a massive early Christian middle.

The early Christian necropolis from that generation became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in December 2000. Its episcopate became based in 1009 by using Stephen I, and the first university in Hungary turned into founded in Pecs in 1367 by Louis I the Great. Pecs turned into formed into one of the cultural and humanities middle of the us of a by way of bishop Janus Pannonius, great humanist poet. Pecs has a rich historical past from the age of a one hundred fifty-year-lengthy Ottoman career, just like the mosque of Pasha Qasim the Victorious on Szechenyi rectangular.