Hungarians (in Hungarian: magyarok) are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. There are around 10 million Hungarians in Hungary (as of 2001). Hungarians were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed through most of the second millennium. The territory of this country was dismembered at the Treaty of Trianon (1920), and as a result, 3,425,000 Hungarians found themselves separated from their motherland. Their numbers...
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Hungarians (in Hungarian: magyarok) are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. There are around 10 million Hungarians in Hungary (as of 2001). Hungarians were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed through most of the second millennium. The territory of this country was dismembered at the Treaty of Trianon (1920), and as a result, 3,425,000 Hungarians found themselves separated from their motherland. Their numbers today are: in the territories of present-day Romania (1,440,000; see: Hungarians in Romania), Slovakia (520,500; see Hungarians in Slovakia), Serbia (293,000; see Hungarians in Vojvodina), Ukraine (156,000; see: Hungarians in Ukraine), Austria (40,583), Croatia (16,500), the Czech Republic (14,600) and Slovenia (10,000). Significant groups of people with Hungarian ancestry live in various other parts of the world (e.g. 1,400,000 in the United States), but unlike the Hungarians living within the former Kingdom of Hungary, only some of these...
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