Google Earth Community: Hungarians swept abroad

...by the tide of history.

hi all!
in this thread i am to put up as much settlements as i can in which numerous hungarians live in the neighbouring countries.
i think very important not to forget the hungarian placenames and the compatriots who have to live in foreign countries
since have been swept abroad by the Treaty of Trianon, and by others.

watch 56 sec archives glossary of
the most sorrowful event of hungarian history,
damnation of a nation in the heart of Europe on
the 4th of June, 1920., Trianon palace, Versailles.

EDIT: gratis map let you compare territories of the Vienna Awards
with the ethnical distribution maps of hungarians in the Carpathian basin.

ever we have to know some history basics, topic is not about history, but present day's situation so have put it up here on People&Cultures.

recent stage of updates:

Modern Hungarian is spoken by over 15 million people all over the world. Of these about 10 million live in what is known as Hungary. Outside present-day Hungary, but within the boundaries of historical Hungary, live another 3-3.5 million Hungarians. These Hungarians found themselves abroad after World War I when ‘historical Hungary’ ceased to exist together with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and new states were created (e.g. Czechoslovakia), or existing ones were enlarged (e.g. Romania) by the Trianon Peace Treaty in 1920. The Hungarian minority in Romania is the most numerous: there are about 2 million of them, mainly in Transylvania, and this number includes the Székely (sometimes spelt in English: Szekler), a people who by their language and cultural heritage are Hungarians, but whose origin is far from being satisfactorily explained. They supposedly lived in Transylvania before the Hungarian conquest and apparently adopted the Hungarian language. It is also claimed sometimes that they are the descendants of Huns and have been living there ever since the Empire of Attila. Today’s Székelys possess no distinguishing features, if they ever had any, except their proud assertion that they are Székelys and not Hungarians. About one million Hungarians live in the southern part of Czechoslovakia, and about half a million in northern Yugoslavia. A small autochthonous Hungarian population is found in the westernmost part of the Soviet Union on the western slopes of the Carpathians, and in eastern Austria, in Burgenland.

The rest of the Hungarians living abroad emigrated beyond neighbouring countries of their own free will. The majority of them (about one million) settled in North America (the USA and Canada), but Hungarians also went to South America (particularly to Argentina) and to Australia. In Europe, Austria, Germany, France, and England all have received Hungarian immigrants. Mass emigration took place at the end of the last century: large numbers of unemployed Hungarians moved to North America. After both World Wars Hungarians fled abroad mainly for political reasons. The last wave of refugees, some 200,000, left Hungary after the revolution in 1956.
book in english

According to the results of the censuses held around the millennium in each country in the Carpathian Basin, there are approximately 2.5 million Hungarians living in the neighbouring countries to Hungary.

Romania: 000000000000i 1,431,807 (2002)
Slovakia: 0000000000000iiii 520,528 (2001)
Serbia: and Montenegro00ii 293,299 (2002)
Ukraine: 00000000000000iii 156,600 (2001)
Austria: 00000000000000000 40,583 (2001)
Croatia: 0000000000000000ii 16,595 (2001)
Slovenia: 00000000000000000 6,243 (2002)
It is estimated that the number of the dispersed Hungarians and persons of Hungarian origin living outside of the Carpathian Basin is between 2 and 2.5 million individuals. Approximately 260,000 to 270,000 Hungarians may live in Western Europe (Austria not included), 1.6 million in North America, 50,000 to 55,000 in South America, and at least 62,000 in Australia and New Zealand. In addition, about 200,00 to 250,000 Hungarians may live in Israel, 30,000 in Asia, and at least 10,000 in Africa, mostly in South Africa. -more-

In the he first post (update): 150 settlements from today's Romania with their hungarian -name and -population.

In connection with the Hungarians, its was mistakenly believed for a long time that the numerical size of the two-million strong community was manipulated by the official statistics of Romania’s communist regime. However, the 1992 census clearly indicated that this illusion had to be discarded, and the census taken a decade later rang the alarm bell and made undeniable the fact that population decrease had become the greatest and most burning problem of Transylvania’s Hungarians. The Hungarian minority community, which has protected its interests with great success and stands at the threshold of European integration, is now confronted by a tremendous challenge and must find a remedy to the new "threat" of the new century, namely population aging and emigration. However, this community has enough strength to survive and have a future, as evidenced by its nearly one-century old history and present as well.

For Transylvania’s Hungarians, the 1920 Trianon Peace Treaty, next to the separation from the mother country, marked the beginning of becoming a minority and the start of a new "nation building". In the course of its one thousand- year history, it was not the first time that they had been forcibly separated from Hungary but until the 19th century, they had never become a minority and compelled to integrate the frame of another nation-state. A certain degree of Transylvanian regional consciousness can also be found in pre-Trianon history but Transylvania’s Hungarians as a category were born later and subsequently determined the frame, basic principles, and means of interest assertion of their way of life as a minority that are valid to this day.
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Related from GEC:

Hungarians in Transylvania - overlay collection
Holy Shrines of Great - Hungary
Castles of historical Hungary
Where the Turul nests
Hungarian Regional Embroideries
Hungarian Language
Great - Hungary (locked)

gratis: World Population Change 1950-2005

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Edited by syzygy (05/03/08 03:33 AM)