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"We are currently celebrating the 550th anniversary of a victory of worldwide importance. We are celebrating the fact that ten thousand soldiers in a Hungarian border fortress, called Nándorfehérvár in those days and Belgrade today, managed to stop the one hundred thousand-strong Turkish army.
This was a tremendous victory, because three years after the fall of Constantinople not only the Balkans, but Western Christendom too was in extreme danger when the Sultan started to advance along the Danube. The Pope was so relieved and happy that he ordered the bells to be rung at midday in every church, every day. This is why church bells have been ringing at midday in Christendom for over five hundred years.
After the Nándorfehérvár victory, the Turks did not dare threaten the Western world for seventy years, and the ensuing huge social and economic boom allowed capitalism to take hold. The victory also demonstrated that Christendom was able to defend its values when it acted in union, because the victory against the numerically superior enemy was shared by West European mercenaries too, some of whom, however, fought on the Turkish side as well. A strategic alliance was formed between the Catholic kingdom of Hungary and the Balkan nations, especially the Serbs and Albanians, which later included Wallachia too.
Unfortunately, volunteer crusaders arrived only from Hungary and our East European region, although solidarity should have been reciprocal then, just like it should be today."@en1
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