ABSTRACT
In 1896, Budapest, and indeed the whole of the Kingdom of Hungary, celebrated the one thousandth anniversary of the Magyar tribes’ conquest of the Pannonia basin. The extensive and resplendent festivities, attended by the Imperial family and dignitaries from overseas, were not only intended to mark the Magyar Millennium, they also proclaimed to the world Hungary’s arrival as a full-fledged, modern European nation and celebrated the emergence of Budapest as a metropolis on the West-European, but especially the Parisian, model.
