It is not an everyday thing, to be a monument from a long bygone empire. Take me, for example, the Mosque of Kászim Gázi Pasha in Pécs. As my name indicates, I was built in the 1560s by Kászim Gázi Pasha, a high-ranking military leader of the Ottoman Empire. Hungary was a part of the Ottoman Empire between 1541 and 1699. I served as a place of worship for the Muslim Turks. The fact that there was once a Christian church on the same spot shows how the times change. I was built on top of that as a mosque, and although my form has not changed much, nowadays I function as a Roman Catholic church as the church before me did, under the name of the Church of Our Lady of Candlemas. I'm not the only one in Pécs who can remember the old days. There are the early Christian catacombs, which were built during the Roman Empire and were even added to the World Heritage List. On the subject of ancient Romans: they founded Pécs in the 2nd century AD. as Sopianae. Then, in 1009, King St. Stephen I founded a bishopric here, and another Hungarian king founded a university in 1367, which was not only the first university in the country, but is still going strong today. So much has happened here since, and residents of many nationalities have created a rich and colourful culture, which is why there is a museum for the works of Victor Vasarely, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka and Amerigo Tot, and perhaps it is no coincidence that the Zsolnay ceramics factory or the Angster organ and harmonium factory were established here, too.