Veszprem

Veszprem is one of the oldest urban areas in Hungary, and a town with county rights. It lies about 15 km north of the Lake Balaton. It is the workplace of the county of the equal call. The call of the town originates from a Slavic personal call Bezprem or Bezprym which means "stubborn", "self-confident, not inclined to retreat". Besprem, Vezprem, Bezpremensis. The shape Vezprem originates in early medieval scribal conduct and frequent alternate of B and V underneath the impact of Greek. The city become named both after a chieftain, or the son of Princess Judith, who settled right here after her husband Boleslaus I of Poland expelled her and her son.

Anonymus Belæ Regis Notarius wrote that a fort already stood here whilst the Hungarians first occupied the place. The citadel changed into probable a 9th-century Frankish fort. The castles of Veszprem, Esztergom and Szekesfehervar, had been the earliest Hungarian stone castles, which had already been built in the course of the reign of High Prince Geza, a time when motte castles were a good deal more common.