Hungary

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A Historical Survey Budapest The Danube Bend Transdanubia The Great Plain Northern Hungary "Who are the Hungarians?"-This is one of the questions which automatically flashes through the reader's mind when he picks up the book carrying the country's name as its title. Who are the people who have been living for over a thousand years in the heart of the Continent in CentraKEastern Europe? Although on the basis of their origin they do not belong to the Slavic, the Germanic or the Latin peoples, they are nonetheless integrál members of the family of European peoples, connected by the common ties of history and culture both to their immediate and more distant neighbours. And perhaps the next question that comes to mind might be this: How do the Hungarians see themselves? Their centuries of history have presented a variety of images to the world. Hungary has been regarded as a force that created a civilization, adopted, established, arfd added. Hungárián character to Romanesque and Gothic... Tovább

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A Historical Survey Budapest The Danube Bend Transdanubia The Great Plain Northern Hungary "Who are the Hungarians?"-This is one of the questions which automatically flashes through the reader's mind when he picks up the book carrying the country's name as its title. Who are the people who have been living for over a thousand years in the heart of the Continent in CentraKEastern Europe? Although on the basis of their origin they do not belong to the Slavic, the Germanic or the Latin peoples, they are nonetheless integrál members of the family of European peoples, connected by the common ties of history and culture both to their immediate and more distant neighbours. And perhaps the next question that comes to mind might be this: How do the Hungarians see themselves? Their centuries of history have presented a variety of images to the world. Hungary has been regarded as a force that created a civilization, adopted, established, arfd added. Hungárián character to Romanesque and Gothic art, and enjoyed a Rehaissance culture which produced numerous masterpieces. It had to struggle against Ottoman . expansion, reaching the verge of annihilation in the process; it is a country whose poets and intellectuals conjutód, both then and later--when Hungary came under Habsburg rule and was subjected to oppres^ion and a policy of assimilation-the image of the nation's death. It is afcountry that was drawn against its own interests into the turmoil •A of two world wars and was ravaged in consequence. Amidst such vicjssitudes, how did it manage to maintain its national identity? How did it succeed in eliminating the feudal remnants of its own past, shedding "pe^cefully an oppres^sive communist system and starting a new era, and jgi . ^ • moving towards a pluralistic democracy and a markét economy? T^ere are questions upon questions, to which the answers are given within the pages this book on the Hungárián Republic. Vissza