History of Hungary
History of Hungary
The land where Hungary is located today was inhabited by different cultures before the long and stormy history of Hungary started, celts and Romans left their footprints, huns arrived and occupied the region in the 5th century, German tribes and Avars conquered the area from one another but no permanent inhabitors stayed until the first Magyars arrived led by Árpád in the late 9th century.
Magyar people are thought to be originated from distant Siberia and have migrated to find their homeland to arrive in the region of the Carpathian Basin. The history of Hungary as we know it began in 1000, after uniting all Hungarian tribes, the first Christian king of Hungary, István I. was crowned. Throughout the following 1000 years of history, Hungary concurred and lost territories over half of Europe, big emperors like Kálmán Könyves, Béla III., Béla IV., Nagy Lajos, Mátyás Hunyadi, constructed and improved the country despite the sometimes difficult times, for example, the invasions of the Mongols and Ottomans.
With the invasion of Ottomans and the formation of the Ottoman Empire, a long period of foreign and then shared ruling of the country began, Austria and Russia gained political power over the country, and then in 1867, Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy was established. The country flourished, the co-capital along Vienna, Budapest was established by uniting the 3 cities, Buda, Óbuda, and Pest, construction of the Parliament began, Metro line 1, one of the world’s first underground metro systems was built, an era of improvement and industrial bloom was in progress. Until…
In 1914 Worl War I. started in which Hungary allied with Germany. After the defeat, the Austrian Hungarian partnership split, and Hungary lost over 70% of its territory at the Treaty of Trianon in 1920.
In 1939 The World War II. Hungary allied with Germany again and lost again, lost a terrible number of its Jewish population, and got a huge hit in its economy. In 1949 the Hungarian People’s Republic was established as a part of the Soviet Union in which it stayed until the fall of communism and the return of democracy in 1989. Hungary became a democratic republic and later joined Nato and the European Union and improved incredibly fast over the past 20 years.