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His library, the [[Bibliotheca Corviniana]], was Europe's greatest collection of historical chronicles and philosophic and scientific works in the 15th century, and second only in size to the [[Vatican Library]].

His library, the [[Bibliotheca Corviniana]], was Europe's greatest collection of historical chronicles and philosophic and scientific works in the 15th century, and second only in size to the [[Vatican Library]].

The [[Ottoman Empire]]'s [[Ottoman Hungary|conquest of most of Hungary]] in the [[16th century]] interrupted the cities' growth: Buda and Pest fell to the invaders in [[1541]]. While Buda remained the seat of a Turkish pasha, and administrative center of a whole [[vilayet]], Pest was largely derelict by the time of their recapture in [[1686]] by [[Austria]]'s [[Habsburg]] rulers, who since 1526 had been [[List of Hungarian rulers|Kings of Hungary]] despite their loss of most of the country.  

The [[Ottoman Empire]]'s [[Ottoman Hungary|conquest of most of Hungary]] in the [[16th century]] interrupted the cities' growth: Buda and Pest fell to the invaders in [[1541]]. While Buda remained the seat of a Turkish pasha, and administrative center of a whole [[vilayet]], Pest was largely derelict by the time of their recapture in [[1686]] by [[Austria]]'s [[Habsburg]] rulers, who since [[1526]] had been [[List of Hungarian rulers|Kings of Hungary]] despite their loss of most of the country.  

It was [[Pest (city)|Pest]], a bustling commercial town, which enjoyed the faster growth rate in the [[18th century|18th]] and [[19th century|19th]] century and contributed the overwhelming majority of the cities' combined growth in the 19th. By [[1800]] its population was larger than that of Buda and Óbuda combined. The population of Pest grew twenty-fold in the following century to 600,000, while that of Buda and Óbuda quintupled.

It was [[Pest (city)|Pest]], a bustling commercial town, which enjoyed the faster growth rate in the [[18th century|18th]] and [[19th century|19th]] century and contributed the overwhelming majority of the cities' combined growth in the 19th. By [[1800]] its population was larger than that of Buda and Óbuda combined. The population of Pest grew twenty-fold in the following century to 600,000, while that of Buda and Óbuda quintupled.