We hate are nature, so we destroyed the waters (and still do to this day).
Brussels stole it
Almás-patak is still there
Ellopták a törökök
Based on wikipedia, it was a swampy area fed by the Almás-patak. The fort had an artificial moat built as well. After it lost it’s defensive relevance, the moats were drained around the end of the 18th century and I guess the swamp disappeared during the great waterway regulations in the middle of the 19th century but I found no source for that.
It was a swamp area back then and there was some sort of an island in there which they built the castle on. Its name Szigetvár means Island (sziget) castle (vár).
18th and 19th century engineers went like qwuoooopppp and rivers and marshes in Hungary went woooosh. They destroyed an insane amount of watery and marshy habitats by regulating rivers.
Az EU szankciókat vetett ki rá és elsikkadt.
A huge percentage of hungarian land mass used to be swamps/floodplains. Especially true for today’s Hungary, as most of the area inside the 1918 borders is flat, and the mountains are outside that. Here’s a map from before the river-regulation works started in the 1840’s:
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I think it was a swamp/moat not a river.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Kárpát-medence_v%C3%ADzrajza_%281938%29.png
We hate are nature, so we destroyed the waters (and still do to this day).
Brussels stole it
Almás-patak is still there
Ellopták a törökök
Based on wikipedia, it was a swampy area fed by the Almás-patak. The fort had an artificial moat built as well. After it lost it’s defensive relevance, the moats were drained around the end of the 18th century and I guess the swamp disappeared during the great waterway regulations in the middle of the 19th century but I found no source for that.
[Szigetvár and its surroundings in the XVIII. century](https://maps.arcanum.com/en/map/europe-18century-firstsurvey/?layers=163%2C165&bbox=1975137.8792536836%2C5786400.831922011%2C1988027.0731482715%2C5790881.952705231)
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It was a swamp area back then and there was some sort of an island in there which they built the castle on. Its name Szigetvár means Island (sziget) castle (vár).
18th and 19th century engineers went like qwuoooopppp and rivers and marshes in Hungary went woooosh. They destroyed an insane amount of watery and marshy habitats by regulating rivers.
Az EU szankciókat vetett ki rá és elsikkadt.
A huge percentage of hungarian land mass used to be swamps/floodplains. Especially true for today’s Hungary, as most of the area inside the 1918 borders is flat, and the mountains are outside that. Here’s a map from before the river-regulation works started in the 1840’s:
[https://imgur.com/a/45KhX5O](https://imgur.com/a/45KhX5O)
Floods used to be a huge problem, Budapest had one in 1938 where 100+ people died, and the whole city center was flooded by up to 2 meters.
(edit:forgot to paste the link)