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Hungarian algorithm
The Hungarian algorithm, also known as the Kuhn-Munkres or Munkres algorithm, solves the linear sum assignment problem in polynomial time, first published by Harold Kuhn in 1955.
Hungarian alphabet
Hungarian alphabet (magyar ábécé): the 44-letter extended Latin alphabet (40 native letters) used to write Hungarian, with digraphs like cs, gy, sz, trigraph dzs, and accented long vowels ő, ű; regulated by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Hungarian Autonomous Region
The Hungarian Autonomous Region (Magyar Autonóm Tartomány) was an autonomous region for the Hungarian Székely population of eastern Transylvania, in the Romanian People's Republic, from 1952 until its abolition in 1968.
Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin
The Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (Honfoglalás) was the Magyar occupation and settlement of the Carpathian Basin between 895 and 900, led by grand prince Árpád.
Hungarian cuisine
Hungarian cuisine: Central European cooking tradition of the Carpathian Basin, defined by paprika, onion-fat stewing bases, goulash and halászlé, shaped by German, Italian, Ottoman, and Habsburg influences.
Hungarian Dances (Brahms)
Hungarian Dances (Ungarische Tänze, WoO 1): 21 dance movements Brahms arranged mostly from Hungarian gypsy tunes for piano four hands, published 1869 and 1880; No. 5 borrows Béla Kéler's csárdás Bártfai emlék.
Hungarian Defence Forces
Hungarian Defence Forces (Magyar Honvédség), Hungary's armed forces and NATO member since 1999; rebuilt through the Zrínyi 2026 program with Leopard 2A7+, Lynx KF41, PzH 2000, NASAMS and Gripen, spending above NATO's 2% target with a 5%-by-2035 pledge.
Hungarian Democratic Forum
Hungarian Democratic Forum (Magyar Demokrata Fórum, MDF), Hungarian conservative party founded at Lakitelek 1987; won the 1990 election with 165 seats and led József Antall's government until its 1994 collapse to 37 seats.
Hungarian Diet of 1790–1791
The Hungarian Diet of 1790–1791, convened at Buda by Leopold II after Joseph II's death, passed seventy-five acts, including Act X of 1791 declaring Hungary a free, independent kingdom.
Hungarian Diet of 1832–1836
The Hungarian Diet of 1832–1836, known in Hungarian as the first Reform Age diet, met at Pozsony, where an organized reform opposition first appeared and Kossuth published his Diet Reports.
Hungarian Diet of 1839–1840
The Hungarian Diet of 1839–1840 was a session of the Kingdom of Hungary's estates assembly at Pozsony that passed 51 reform laws, refusing business until Kossuth and Wesselényi were freed.
Hungarian emigration to the United States
Hungarian emigration to the United States was a mass movement from the Kingdom of Hungary that began in the 1880s and peaked between 1905 and 1907.
Hungarian folk tale
The Hungarian folk tale (népmese) is a prose genre of Hungarian oral folk poetry with a rounded plot, blending everyday and marvelous elements, central to Hungarian folklore studies.
Hungarian forint
The Hungarian forint (HUF, Magyar forint) is the official currency of Hungary, issued by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank and introduced in 1946 to replace the pengő.
Hungarian grain boom
The Hungarian grain boom was the period from the mid-19th century to the First World War when grain and flour became the leading exports of the Kingdom of Hungary.
Hungarian Grand Prix
Hungarian Grand Prix: F1 race at the Hungaroring near Budapest, first held 1986, first behind the Iron Curtain; 4.381 km, 70 laps; Hamilton has 8 wins, McLaren 13; contracted until 2032.
Hungarian historical novel
The Hungarian historical novel (történelmi regény) is the Hungarian branch of European long fiction set in past eras, beginning with Miklós Jósika's Abafi in 1836 and reaching its classics with Jósika, Kemény, and Jókai.
Hungarian insurrectio of 1809
The Hungarian insurrectio of 1809 was the last full mobilization of Hungary's medieval noble levy during the War of the Fifth Coalition, ending in defeat at the Battle of Győr.
Hungarian invasions of Europe
The Hungarian invasions of Europe were Magyar raids from the Carpathian Basin across tenth-century Europe, ending in the west with their defeat at Lechfeld in 955.
Hungarian irredentism
Hungarian irredentism, also called Hungarian revisionism, is the movement seeking return of territories lost by the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, ideally as Greater Hungary (Nagy-Magyarország).
Hungarian Jacobin conspiracy
The Hungarian Jacobin conspiracy (magyar jakobinus összeesküvés) was a secret republican movement organized in 1794 by Ignác Martinovics, who sought national independence and social reform and was beheaded in Buda in 1795.
Hungarian land reform of 1945
The Hungarian land reform of 1945, decreed in March 1945 by the Provisional National Government, broke up large estates and gave land to about 642,000 landless peasants.
Hungarian language
Hungarian (magyar) is the official Uralic, Ugric-branch language of Hungary, unrelated to Indo-European; notable for pervasive front/back and limited roundness vowel harmony with four neutral vowels, agglutinating morphology, official status since 1844, and large minorities in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, and Ukraine.
Hungarian language act of 1844
The Hungarian language act of 1844 (Act II of 1844) made Hungarian the official language of the Kingdom of Hungary, replacing Latin in legislation, administration, and the courts.
Hungarian Millennium celebrations
The millennium celebrations in Hungary (millenniumi ünnepségek) were the year-long 1896 festivities marking 1,000 years since the Magyar conquest, centered on a National Millennium Exhibition in Budapest.
Hungarian Music Awards
Hungarian Music Awards (Fonogram – Magyar Zenei Díj), Hungary's national music prizes founded by MAHASZ in 1992 as the Arany Zsiráf, renamed Fonogram in 2004; 18 jury-voted genre categories plus public-voted Recording of the Year.
Hungarian notation
Hungarian notation is a variable naming convention in which prefixes describe a variable's type or use, devised by Charles Simonyi and spread by Microsoft's Windows documentation.
Hungarian occupation of Carpathian Ruthenia
The Hungarian occupation of Carpathian Ruthenia was the Royal Hungarian Army's takeover of Czechoslovakia's easternmost province between 15 and 18 March 1939, carried out with Hitler's authorization.
Hungarian occupation of Yugoslav territories
The Hungarian occupation of Yugoslav territories was Hungary's World War II occupation and annexation of Bačka, Baranja, Međimurje, and Prekmurje from Yugoslavia, in April 1941.
Hungarian Order of Merit
The Hungarian Order of Merit (Magyar Érdemrend) is a Hungarian state decoration, first created in 1922 and re-founded in 1991, awarded for service to a democratic Hungary.