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The inauguration of the Cozma monument in Veszprém – the „genius loci”

  • cgs
  • | Feb 18, 2010 at 11:23 AM
  • | Posted in: cgs's Blog
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This article is connecting to my previous articles: „The Cozma monument” and „Mediaeval church…”

This monument was establihed to memory of a Roumanian handball player Marian Cozma.

The inauguration event happened in 6 February, 2010 (one year after his death) in Veszprém before the Sports Hall (Arena) where came together huge crowd (on the picture) what I saw personally.

 

Lajos Mocsai, the coach of Veszprém handball team (formerly he was the trainer of Hungarian woman representative team which was second in the olympiad and in world championship) sad during this event: - Here is the „genius loci” (the spirit of the place) in every hills and in every houses of this historical city.

Veszprém was founded on hills as Roma and there is the castle in the centre of city, where the Hungarian conquerors were fighting against Roman soldiers of Roma in the end of 9th century. (see it in my previous article „Besieged Romans…”) The Latin expression „genius loci” is particularly characteristic feature of this town.

 

On this picture are visible four giants (not considering of tallness). There are Marian Cozma, Lajos Mocsai, Petre Cozma the father of Marian and the fourt giant which you couldn’t see. This is the „genius loci”, the spirit of the city. I believe that there is it. But this picture much more reveals. Let we remain at Romans, Latins. This is another Latin phrase: „Divide et impera!” (divide among they and reign over they) This phrase was used by the Austrian caesar and by the Soviet dictators towards Hungarian and Roumanian people in the past. This phrase became invalid in this two most beautiful countries of Europe, in Hungary and Roumania. Look at the picture! Marian Cozma… rest in peace!

Comments


  • 3 years ago

    Portuguesx2

    yeah RIP Cozma. I play handball and its always sad to see players pass away.

  • 3 years ago

    cgs

    Dear friend Philip (sheardp), I didn't write about handball, and know that this is a site of chess. I wrote an article about a man who was connected to chess and chess.com with a Roumanian - Hungarian match in chess.com sites and with a Memorial Tournament in chess.com by 48 games. All this was written in my previous articles as I related to this fact in my first sentence. My all articles consist chessgames, puzzles with analyzing except this one, the 60th. There you could find what interest you in chess in wide variety, from 59 articles.

  • 3 years ago

    cgs

    The bust (statue) was established by public contributions. The people gave 24 000 Euro (6 and half million Forint) within borders and without borders. This was the opinion of these men and women. This last opinion of "bgrg" is the opinion of a man who hasn't name and hasn't a picture in the chess.com. But we have respect for his opinion, the dwarf also could give his opinion about an giant.

  • 3 years ago

    bgrg

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  • 3 years ago

    Evil_Joker

    with all due respect, did you post on the right website?

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