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László Veszprémy

László Veszprémy is a military historian, former head of Military History Institute in the MoD Institute and Museum of Military History, Budapest. He is a former visiting professor at the Central European University’s Department of Medieval Studies, currently professor in the History Department at the Catholic University Péter Pázmány, Budapest. He published widely on medieval Latin historiography and Hungarian military history, and was co-editor of several volumes of the series Central European Medieval Texts published by CEU Press.
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