© Pasztilla aka Attila Ter… · CC BY-SA 4.0© Pasztilla aka Attila Ter… · CC BY-SA 4.0© Pasztilla aka Attila Ter… · CC BY-SA 4.0Francis II Rákóczi (1676–1735) was a Hungarian nobleman who led a failed rebellion against the Hapsburg empire. He fled to Poland (where he was smart enough to decline the offer of the crown), then rattled around England and France before settling in Ottoman Turkey. He spent his last 18 years in this house in Tekirdağ and a colony of other Hungarian emigres settled around him – best known is Kelemen Mikes (1690–1761). The house has been restored, not to that period but to 1906 when drawings of the interior were made. The Szekely Gate in front of the house commemorates his fellow exiles, of whom few other traces remain in the city. Rákóczi is buried in Košice, Slovakia, where a copy of this house has been erected.
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