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The following is a timeline of Oradea, a city in western Romania, between the 9th and 16th centuries.

  • 9th-10th centuries: According to Gesta Hungarorum, Menumorut ruled the area - with a citadel centered in Bihar - until the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin.[1]
  • 10th century: Várad (vár = castle, -ad = diminutive suffix [cf. Herend, Kermend, Kövösd, Fertőd, Városd, Jobbágy, Hortobágy]) is founded.
  • 1082–1095: The Várad Bishopric was founded by King Ladislaus I of Hungary.[2]
  • 12th century: Becomes a cultural and religious center of the Kingdom of Hungary.
  • 1208–1235: Regestrum Varadinense, the oldest document mentioning Oradea
  • 13th century: The city flourished.
  • 1412: Wladislaus II of Poland visits the grave of St. Ladislaus barefoot.
  • 1437: Sigismund dies and was buried in Oradea Cathedral.
  • 1445: John Vitéz of Zredna becomes bishop.
  • 1474: The city is devastated by the Turks.
  • 1514: A peasant uprising, led by György Dózsa, ransacked and burned the city.
  • 1526: Bishop of Oradea Francis Perenyi is killed in the Battle of Mohács.
  • 1538: Zápolyai’s ablest adviser, the Croat Franciscan Friar George, mediates the secret agreement of Oradea in which each claimant (Ferdinand of Habsburg and John I of Hungary) recognises the other's title and the territorial status quo.
  • 1541: Buda falls, and refugees arrive in Oradea.
  • 1557: Queen Isabella's captain, Tamas Varkoch, captures the fortress and the bishopric's estates are confiscated.
  • 1565: Saint Ladislaus' grave is defaced.
  • 1570–1596: A new fortress is built in late-Italian Renaissance style.
  • 1598–1606: Oradea secedes from Transylvania.
  • 1598: The fortress is besieged and, on August 27, 1660, Oradea falls to the Turks.
  1. ^ "Oradea | Romania". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  2. ^ Jewish Gen website, Oradea - An Introduction to its Jewish History, article by Susan Geroe dated November 2004

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