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Bertalan Szemere

1812–1869 · 19th century

Bertalan Szemere was a Hungarian politician who served as minister of the interior in the first Hungarian government of 1848 and as prime minister from May to August 1849, after the declaration of independence. When the revolution was defeated he hid the Holy Crown of Hungary near Orsova and went into exile. He returned to Hungary in 1865.

Bertalan Szemere — Image: Sándor Kozina · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Hungarian State (1849)

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