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  1. A Concise History of Hungary (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Miklós Molnár, 2001-04-30
  2. A History of Hungary
  3. ONE THOUSAND YEARS : A CONCISE HISTORY OF HUNGARY
  4. The Will to Survive: A History of Hungary by Bryan Cartledge, 2007-10-25
  5. A History of Hungary by Laszlo Kontler, 2006-12-12
  6. The Spirit of Hungary : A Panorama of Hungarian History and Culture (Third Edition) by Stephen Sisa, 1995-11
  7. The Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, Psychology by Raphael Patai, 1996-05
  8. Austro Hungarian, The: Dual Monarchy: History Maps Series by Diarmuid Jeffreys, 2008-03-25
  9. A history of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918 by Robert A Kann, 1992
  10. The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918 : A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary by A. J. P. Taylor, 1976-05-15
  11. A History of Hungary: Millennium in Central Europe by Laszlo Kontler, 2003-01-15
  12. Austria in the First Cold War, 1945-55: The Leverage of the Weak (Cold War History) by Gunter Bischof, 1999-08-20
  13. Realm of St. Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary (International Library of Historical Studies) by Pal Engel, 2005-07-22
  14. Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising by Erich Lessing, 2006-10-23

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The Carpathian Basin, in which Hungary lies, has been populated by successive peoples for thousands of years. One such tribe was the nomadic Magyars, who reached the area as early as the mid-8th century. Known for their equestrian skills, the Magyars raided far and wide, until they were stopped by the Germans in 955. The defeat left the Magyar tribes in disarray, and later forced them into an alliance with the Holy Roman Empire. In the year 1000, the Magyar prince Stephen was crowned 'Christian King' Stephen I, with a crown sent from Rome by the pope, and Hungary, the kingdom and the nation, was officially born. Stephen ruthlessly set about consolidating royal authority by expropriating land, establishing a system of counties, and evangelising the countryside. By the time of his death in 1038, Hungary was a nascent Christian culture, increasingly westward-looking and multi-ethnic. The next two and a half centuries - during the reign of the House of rp¡d - tested the new kingdom to the limit. The period was marked by constant struggles between rival claimants to the throne, and land grabs by powerful neighbours. Hungary's descent into anarchy was arrested only after Andrew III, the rp¡d's last in line, died in 1301. After the death of Andrew III, Hungary flourished. A succession of able rulers, beginning with Charles Robert and culminating in the golden reign of Matthias Corvinus, made the country one of Europe's leading powers. However, the death of Matthias in 1490 resulted in another setback. His successor Vladislav was unable to maintain royal authority, funds were squandered, and retrograde laws reduced the peasantry to serfdom.

3. Hungary History, Budapest History
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Hungary's first 1000 years
Y ellow trams rattling down grand boulevards, faded neo-Baroque interiors, facades marked with signs of revolution, streets of cobblestone, grand turn of the century apartment blocks. Like the bathers lingering in the steam of Budapest's famous baths, this is a country infused with memories and history.
H ungary celebrated the 1000th anniversary of the Hungarian State at the end of the last century. During the tumultuous thousand year history of Hungary and the Central European Region, rulers came and went and empires rose and fell, but Hungary's distinctive charms have never waned nor its welcome ever been less than genuine.
T he foundation was laid in the ninth century by the great Magyar chief, Árpád, who after having settled in the carpathian basin lead the people from paganism toward Christianity. On Christmas Day, 1000, Árpád's great grandson, Stephen ascended to the throne with a crown sent from Rome by Pope Sylvester II. The kingdom and nation of Hungary was born.
T he three hundred year reign of the House of Árpád saw the country become increasingly westward-looking and the succeeding House of Anjou brought expansion - into Poland, towards Dalmatia - and a great flowering of art and architecture. The first Golden Age had begun. Under King Matthias, lauded for his fairness and justice, Hungary flourished, but his passing eventually led to decimation under the Ottomans for 150 years during the 16th and l7th-century. However, the Habsburgs helped oust the Turkish, heralding a more stable time of reconstruction.

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Ecommerce Solution Free Web Space Free Web Site Web Hosting ... Dial up $14.95 or NetZero Internet Service $9.95 SCOUTING IN HUNGARY HUNGARIAN SCOUTS IN EXILE HUNGARIAN SCOUT ASSOCIATION Mr. Gabor Bodnar has led the Association since 1945. As a young Scoutmaster (25 at the time) he started organizing troops in Germany with several Scout friends (we refer to them collectively as the Countryless Eagles). He is still active as our General Secretary. His tireless work built the organization into what it is today. We who now are responsible for carrying forward this work owe him an eternal debt of gratitude for his work and sacrifice. Typically, we have a Boy Scout and Girl Guide troop in most cities that have substantial Hungarian populations. We are either closely affiliated or actually operate most Hungarian weekend schools around the world. We held celebrations of our 50th anniversary and had Jamborees in the USA (Fillmore, NY), Europe (Germany), and Australia (near Melbourne). Our South American troops will hold their Jamboree late in 1996. We base on our work on carrying out our obligations at four levels (God, our adopted countries, our fellowman and the Hungarian nation).

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    Although the Carpathian Basin, where Hungary lies, was populated by various peoples for many millennia before the Magyars arrived, it was these nomadic people who took control of the area in the 10th century. (The language of the Magyars, still spoken in Hungary, is not Indo-European - it's related only to Finnish and Estonian.) King Stephen, who was later canonized, consolidated the power of the monarchy as he Christianized the country. During the Middle Ages, squabbles between nobles and a peasant uprising divided the land (the peasant leader was burned alive on a red-hot iron throne), until a loss by the Hungarian army to the Ottoman Turks in 1526 sent the nation into a long-lasting downward spin. Following the expulsion of the Turks in 1686, Hungary fell under Hapsburg rule. That lasted until the advent of the Dual Monarchy - an odd arrangement made in 1867 that united Austria (the empire) and Hungary (the kingdom) in a federated state. The Dual Monarchy entered World War I as a German ally - with disastrous results. Following the war, Hungary was reduced to a third of its original size, leaving hundreds of thousands of ethnic Hungarians in neighboring countries. The results of World War II, which Hungary entered on the side of the Axis powers, were just as disastrous. Budapest was left in ruins, and by 1947, Communists had taken control of the country and had begun to force peasants onto collective farms. The 1956 uprising, when Soviet tanks crossed the border and crushed an attempt by Hungarians to re-establish an independent state, shook the world - you can see the bullet holes and shrapnel craters on almost every old building in Budapest.

    8. Hungary History
    Since its conversion to Western Christianity before AD 1000, Hungary has been an integral part of Europe. Although Hungary was a
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    The provisional government, dominated by the Hungarian Communist Party (MKP), was replaced in November 1945 after elections which gave majority control of a coalition government to the Independent Smallholders' Party. The government instituted a radical land reform and gradually nationalized mines, electric plants, heavy industries, and some large banks. The communists ultimately undermined the coalition regime by discrediting leaders of rival parties and through terror, blackmail, and framed trials. In elections tainted by fraud in 1947, the leftist bloc gained control of the government. Postwar cooperation between the U.S.S.R. and the West collapsed, and the Cold War began. With Soviet support, Moscow-trained Matyas Rakosi began to establish a communist dictatorship.
    By February 1949, all opposition parties had been forced to merge with the MKP to form the Hungarian Workers' Party. In 1949, the communists held a single-list election and adopted a Soviet-style constitution which created the Hungarian People's Republic. Rakosi became Prime Minister in 1952. Between 1948 and 1953, the Hungarian economy was reorganized according to the Soviet model. In 1949, the country joined the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA, or Comecon), a Soviet-bloc economic organization. All private industrial firms with more than 10 employees were nationalized. Freedom of the press, religion, and assembly were strictly curtailed. The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, was sentenced to life imprisonment.

    9. Hungary: History
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      The Roman provinces of Pannonia and Dacia, conquered under Tiberius and Trajan (1st cent. A.D. ), embraced part of what was to become Hungary. The Huns and later the Ostrogoths and the Avars settled there for brief periods. In the late 9th cent. the Magyars , a Finno-Ugric people from beyond the Urals, conquered all or most of Hungary and Transylvania. The semilegendary leader, Arpad , founded their first dynasty. The Magyars apparently merged with the earlier settlers, but they also continued to press westward until defeated by King (later Holy Roman Emperor) Otto I, at the Lechfeld Halted in its expansion, the Hungarian state began to solidify. Its first king, St. Stephen Andrew II Under Andrew's son, Bela IV , the kingdom barely escaped annihilation: Mongol invaders, defeating Bela at Muhi (1241), occupied the country for a year, and Ottocar II of Bohemia also defeated Bela, who was further threatened by his own rebellious son

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    Country Info Hungary Introduction Hungary General Data Hungary Maps Hungary Culture ... Hungary Time and Date Hungary History Back to Top The Hungarian people's Republic emerged in 1949 after the Hungarian Workers' Party eliminated its rivals and assumed control of the state. Soviet control of Eastern Europe after World War II had enabled a minuscule communist party lacking popular support to gain power in the country and gradually eliminate its political rivals. Under Matyas Rakosi, the party consolidated its control and radically transformed the country economically, socially, and politically. In the mid-1950s, after the Soviet Union had somewhat relaxed its control of Eastern Europe, Hungarian society began to mobilize against the regime, culminating in the Revolution of 1956. Soviet troops crushed the rebellion, leaving power in the hands of Janos Kadar. After consolidating his authority, Kadar embarked on a program of economic reform in the mid-1960s. Like other countries of Eastern Europe, Hungary has a history of class, religious, and ethnic conflicts that were intensified and sometimes decided by the actions of larger, more powerful neighbors. Beginning in the tenth century, German and Bohemian missionaries converted the Magyars. In the early eleventh century, Bavarian knights helped Stephen I eliminate rivals and quash peasant revolts. Suleyman the Magnificent's Ottoman armies conquered and partitioned the country with the Habsburgs in the sixteenth century, expediting the spread of Protestant faiths. Habsburg rulers colonized Hungary with non-Magyars, repressed its Protestants, stifled its economic development, and attempted to Germanize its people. The Entente powers carved up Hungary after World War I and distributed most of the land to new nation-states. Finally, dictator Joseph Stalin enforced Soviet domination over postwar Hungary.

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    History Hungary lies in the Carpathian Basin, surrounded by the Carpathian mountain chain, the Alps and the southern Slav Mountains. In the early as the mid-8th century, the nomadic tribe known as Magyars had settled here first. Known for their equestrian skills, the Magyars raided far and wide, until the Germans stopped them in 955. The defeat left the Magyar tribes in disarray, and later forced them into an alliance with the Holy Roman Empire. In the year 1000, the Magyar prince Stephen was crowned 'Christian King' Stephen I. After his death in 1038, Hungary, was a nascent Christian culture, increasingly westward-looking and multi-ethnic.

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    15. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hungary
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    GEOGRAPHY AND MATERIAL CONDITIONS The Kingdom of Hungary, or "Realm of the Crown of St. Stephen", situated between 14º 25' and 26º 25' E. longitude, and between 44º 10' and 49º 35' N. latitude, includes, besides Hungary Proper and Transylvania, the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and a territory known as the Military Frontier. The total area is 125,430 square miles, of which 16,423 belong to the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. Of a population of 19,254,559 (census of 1900) 51.5 per cent were Catholics. The population of the capital, Budapest, situated on both sides of the Danube, is about 800,000. HISTORY Even in the earliest ages the territory of the present Kingdom of Hungary was the abode of various races of men. The remains from prehistoric times show that the country was inhabited when the present Hungarian lowlands were covered by the ocean. Half a century before Christ the Thracians occupied Hungary east of the Danube, while Hungary west of the Danube was the home of Celtic and Illyrian tribes. At the opening of the Christian Era the sway of the Romans extended as far as the Danube; Pannonia formed part of the Roman Empire for 400 years, and Dacia for about 150 years. After Rome fell, Hungary, like the other provinces, was affected by the migrations. First came the Huns who built up under King Attila , called "the Scourge of God ", the powerful Hunnish Empire. After the empire of the Huns went to pieces German tribes ruled in Hungary for about 100 years, and they were followed by the Avars. During the supremacy of the Avars, a period of over two hundred years, began the migration of the Slavonic tribes. Moravians, Bulgars, Croato-Serbians, and Poles all sought to overthrow the Avars, but their power was not broken until Charlemagne appeared. The decline of the kingdom of the East Franks, after the death of Charlemagne, was favourable to the development of a great Slavonic power, and Swatopluk, ruler of Great Moravia, thought to establish a permanent Moravian kingdom, but the appearance of the Magyars put an end to these schemes.

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    17. Hungary History And Geography
    Background Hungary was part of the polyglot AustroHungarian Empire, which collapsed in World War I. It fell under communist rule following World War II.
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    Introduction [Top of Page] Background: Hungary was part of the polyglot Austro-Hungarian Empire, which collapsed in World War I. It fell under communist rule following World War II. A revolt in 1956 and an announced withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact was met with massive military intervention by Moscow. In the more open GORBACHEV years, Hungary led the movement to dissolve the Warsaw Pact and steadily shifted toward multiparty democracy and a market-oriented economy. Following the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Hungary developed close political and economic ties to Western Europe. It joined NATO in 1999 and is a frontrunner in a future expansion of the EU. Geography [Top of Page] Location: Central Europe, northwest of Romania Geographic coordinates: 47 00 N, 20 00 E Map references: Europe Area:
    total: 93,030 sq km
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    water: 690 sq km Area - comparative: slightly smaller than Indiana Land boundaries:
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    18. Alcoa In Hungary: History
    History, The History of Alcoa in Hungary In January 1993 Alcoa acquired 50.1 percent of the Light Metal Works of Hungary (Székesfehérvári Könnyûfémmû
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    Although the Carpathian Basin, where Hungary lies, was populated by various peoples for many millennia before the Magyars arrived, it was these nomadic people who took control of the area in the 10th century. (The language of the Magyars, still spoken in Hungary, is not Indo-European - it's related only to Finnish and Estonian.) King Stephen, who was later canonized, consolidated the power of the monarchy as he Christianized the country. During the Middle Ages, squabbles between nobles and a peasant uprising divided the land (the peasant leader was burned alive on a red-hot iron throne), until a loss by the Hungarian army to the Ottoman Turks in 1526 sent the nation into a long-lasting downward spin.
    Following the expulsion of the Turks in 1686, Hungary fell under Hapsburg rule. That lasted until the advent of the Dual Monarchy - an odd arrangement made in 1867 that united Austria (the empire) and Hungary (the kingdom) in a federated state. The Dual Monarchy entered World War I as a German ally - with disastrous results. Following the war, Hungary was reduced to a third of its original size, leaving hundreds of thousands of ethnic Hungarians in neighboring countries. The results of World War II, which Hungary entered on the side of the Axis powers, were just as disastrous. Budapest was left in ruins, and by 1947, Communists had taken control of the country and had begun to force peasants onto collective farms. The 1956 uprising, when Soviet tanks crossed the border and crushed an attempt by Hungarians to re-establish an independent state, shook the world - you can see the bullet holes and shrapnel craters on almost every old building in Budapest.

    20. Hungary: History, Economy, Land And People.
    Source Page of The Great Hungarian History. 1102 years of struggle, however, still ticking! BOTTOM. HUNGARY is a landlocked country in central Europe.
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    H U N G A R Y is a landlocked country in central Europe. It borders Austria and Slovenia in the west, Slovakia in the north, Ukraine in the northeast, Romania in the east, and Croatia and Yugoslavia (Vojvodina) in the south. Although mineral-poor, since World War II, Hungary has been transformed into an industrialized state. Until 1918 it was part of Austria-Hungary and was three-and-one-half times its present size, including sections of present-day Romania, Croatia, Slovakia, and Ukraine. Hungary was a one-party Communist state ((((forced to be by the bloody russian red army)))) from 1948 to 1989, when it adopted a multiparty, democratic form of government.
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    Topographically, Hungary is divided into three regions: Transdanubia (Dunantul) in the west, consisting mostly of low, undulating mountains and lowlands that include the Little Plain (Kis Alfold); the North-Central Mountain region (Eszaki Kozephegyseg) adjacent to the Slovak highlands; and the Great Plain (Nagy Alfold), which lies east of the

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