Countess Elizabeth Bathory de Ecsed (1560-1614), from a renowned family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary, has been labeled the most prolific female serial killer in history, ...

Once the heart of a vast empire and now a crossroads between East and West, Hungary stands as a testament to Europe’s layered ...

Hungary’s poignant national prayer, known by its first line ‘God bless the Hungarians’, was once banned from being played at sporting events. ‘Himnusz’ became the de facto national anthem of the ...

Rumors of Báthory's cruelty spread throughout the Kingdom of Hungary in the early 17th century, and after a royal inquiry, four of her servants were convicted of murder and brutally executed.

Csaba Pal Szabo, director of a state-financed Trianon Museum, shows a poster during an interview with AFP journalists on May 25 in Szeged, Hungary. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images) Heather A ...