Bede, Anna (Budapest, 14 July 1926 - Budapest, 30 March 2009) – Poet, literary translator. She studied Hungarian Language and History of Art at the University of Budapest. She has been writing and publishing since 1953. Her translations include Let the Shaman Drums Sound (Sámándobok szóljatok) (1973); Ivanov: Narszpi, A Chuvash Epos (Narszpi Csuvasz eposz) (1977); Ovid: The Art of Love (A szerelem művészete) (1982); Golden Peewit Says at Spring, Anthology of Lapp Folk Poetry (Aranylile mondja tavasszal. Lapp népköltészeti antológia) (1984); Szijazsar: Mordvin Epos (Szijazsar: Moldvin Eposz) (1984); Sesztalov: Julianus Found Me (Julianus rám talált) (1985); Horace’s Complete Works (Horatius összes művei) (1989); Tarhanov: Pagan Walkway (Pogány gyalogút) (2000); her own poems Serious Spring (Szigorú tavasz) (1963); Silver Prayer (Ezüstfohász) (1990), and Signs on the Ice (Jelek a jégen), poems (2003). She was awarded the József Attila Prize in 1975, and the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 2001. – B: 0874, 0878, 0879, 0877, 1257, T: 7103.
Bég – It was the name of a military leader or chief magistrate in the Turkish Empire. Begs ruled the central part of Hungary when it was under Turkish occupation between 1526 and 1686. – B: 1105, B: 7103.→ Turkish rule in Hungary.