Kocs
Sign in to saveKocs () is a village in Komárom-Esztergom county, Hungary. It lies west of Tata and northwest of Budapest. A site of horse-drawn vehicle manufacture from the 1400s, the name is the source of the word coach and its equivalent in other languages.
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- Kocs
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- Location of Komárom-Esztergom county in Hungary
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- Central Transdanubia
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- Komárom-Esztergom
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- Tata
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Kocs () is a village in Komárom-Esztergom county, Hungary. It lies west of Tata and northwest of Budapest. A site of horse-drawn vehicle manufacture from the 1400s, the name is the source of the word coach and its equivalent in other languages.
==History== During the reign of King Matthias Corvinus in the 1400s, the wheelwrights of Kocs began to build a cart with steel-spring suspension. This "cart of Kocs" as the Hungarians called it (kocsi szekér) soon became popular all over Europe. The spread of the kocsi szekér has been linked by some theories personally to the king of Hungary Ferdinand I, the younger brother of Charles V who became the king of Spain, Emperor of Germany, and lord of the Burgundian Netherlands, in the 16th century, and who promoted the comfortable, spring-suspended wagons among the wealthy European nobility.
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