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Budai Nagy Antal Revolt, or Bobâlna Revolt

Years: 1437 - 1437

The Budai Nagy Antal Revolt or Bobâlna Revolt of 1437 in Transylvania is to be the only significant popular revolt in the Kingdom of Hungary prior to the great peasant war of 1514.

The event is named after the leader of the revolt, Antal Nagy de Buda (in Hungarian: Budai Nagy Antal), or is simply called the Transylvanian Peasant Revolt.

Romanian history writing prefers using "Bobâlna Revolt", by the place where the peasant rebels first gathered (Bábolna/Bobâlna).

“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only to avoid them. The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. Let us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask."

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)