Hungary

Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country located in East-Central Europe bordered by Austria on the west, Slovakia on the north, Ukraine on the northeast, Romania on the east, and Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, and Slovenia on the south. Hungary's total land area is 57,809 square miles. The capital of Hungary is Budapest, which is the largest city in the country with a population of about 2 million people.

In 2003, the total population of Hungary was estimated at approximately 10.1 million. Hungary is predominantly homogeneous: Approximately 90 percent of the population are Hungarian. The remaining 10 percent are Romani (gypsies), German, Serb, Slovak, Romanian, Armenian, and other ethnicities. About 67.5 percent of Hungarians are Roman Catholic, 20 percent Calvinist, 5 percent Lutheran, and 7.5 percent other faiths.

Brief History

The Hungarian Kingdom was first established under Szent István (977–1038; Stephen I) in C.E. 1000. In 1541 Ottoman Turks occupied parts of the Hungarian Kingdom, but the Turks were expelled in 1686 and Hungary came under the domination of the Habsburg Empire. In 1867 a dual monarchy of Austria and Hungary was established, replacing the Habsburg Empire with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From 1867 to 1920 Hungary remained part of that empire.

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