The Equestrian Statue of King Bela IV, work by father and son, Bela and David Toth, erected in 2010 at Szeged, a city which was acknowledged by the king depicted here. Bela IV (1206-1270) is also considered "the second founder of the Hungarian state" for the efforts to rebuild his devastated country, after the demolition of the Mongol Invasion in 1240-1241. Szeged is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat of Csongrad-Csanad county. Szeged is known as the home of paprika, a spice made from dried, powdered capsicum fruits. Szeged is situated near the southern border of Hungary, just to the south of the mouth of the Maros River, on both banks of the Tisza River, nearly in the centre of the Carpathian Basin. The Hungarian frontier with Serbia is just outside the town.
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