Count Manó Széchényi de Sárvár-Felsővidék (30 July 1858 - 29 December 1926) was a Hungarian

Hungary

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 politician, who served as Minister besides the King between 1898 and 1900. During his career he was an ambassador to the German Empire

German Empire

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, Kingdom of Greece

Kingdom of Greece

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 and the Italian Kingdom

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

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. He was a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He had a big role in the peace conferencies about the Greco-Turkish War

Greco-Turkish War (1897)

The Greco-Turkish War of 1897, also called the Thirty Days' War and known as the Black '97 in Greece, was a war fought between the Kingdom of Greece and Ottoman Empire. Its immediate cause was the question over the status of the Ottoman province of Crete, whose Greek majority long desired union...

, for which one he got an Order of Leopold

Order of Leopold (Austria)

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. He also worked in Russia

Russian Empire

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, Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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Széchényi's wife was Countess Maria Theresia Revertera von Salandra from 1907. They had no children.