An ancient breed once favored by Hungarian nobility, the kuvasz (pronounced KOO-vahz; plural kuvaszok, pronounced KOO-vah-sock) are giant, elegant dogs with a rich history.Sometimes called kuvs ...

VIENNA, April 6.--An immense sensation has been caused throughout Austria, and, for the matter of that, in every capital of Europe, by the shocking suicide of Count Victor Karolyi, a member of one ...

Countess Katalin Bánffy-Jelen, who has died in Tangier aged 101, came to prominence at the age of 78 when she brought a forgotten masterpiece of European literature to international attention.

FOR CENTURIES Slovakia was part of the Hungarian Empire. In the 9th and 10th centuries when the kingdom was being established, power became more concentrated in the hands of the Hungarian nobility.

He was the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, claimant to the Hungarian Throne (TIME, Jan. 24 et ante). As the Black Archduke passed through the Gate of Honor, two lines of guards with leopard skins ...

Both went by the denomination of count, bestowed upon them as members of Hungarian nobility. Born in Cleveland, Varga wrestled in more than 500 matches from the 1930s to the ’70s and was known ...

The party’s over: Sepy is dead. Sepy was “Baron” Joseph de Bicske Dobronyi, the globetrotting Coconut Grove bon vivant who claimed Hungarian nobility and movie-star girlfriends, — and ...