Kings' pass

	KINGS' PASS (Hung. Királyhágó) is a pass at an altitude of approximately 580 meters. Crossing the Kings' pass, we enter Transylvania, and in this sense, it is the geographic border of Transylvania. It is a common practice that Hungarians speak about lands before and beyond the Kings' pass, since it is a natural division line. The vegetation, which is characteristic to the Great Hungarian Plain land (Hung. Nagyalföld), ends here and changes to pine forests and more mountainous flora. Hungarian king Saint Ladislaus I (1077-1095), the King of Knight lead his troops across the Királyhágó against the Cumanins breaking in Transylvania. It has been an important military road for hundreds of years. The pass witnessed many battles, one of the latest, and probably the most important for the Hungarians, was when, between December 1918 and spring 1919, a Székely regimen commanded by colonel Pál Szotyori Nagy, defended the front here against the Rumanian troops, who already had occupied Transylvania earlier in 1918, and eventually, backed by the Allies, annexed the land, first time in history.	Kings' pass
Click here to hear the song Átmentem a Királyhágón (Engl. I crossed the Kings' pass) (RealAudio 3.0 Dual ISDN Mono sound file, 0.80 Mb, play time: 1 min. 17 sec.)