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Hungarian Parliament Building
The Hungarian Parliament Building, also known as Országház, is the Neo-Gothic seat of the National Assembly of Hungary in Budapest, built 1885 to 1904 to plans by architect Imre Steindl.
Hungarian parliamentary obstruction (1904–1906)
The Hungarian parliamentary obstruction of 1904 to 1906 was a crisis sparked by István Tisza's handkerchief vote, ending with Sándor Wekerle's coalition government in 1906.
Hungarian pengő hyperinflation
The Hungarian pengő hyperinflation was the collapse of Hungary's currency between August 1945 and July 1946, the highest recorded inflation in history, ending with the forint's introduction.
Hungarian People's Republic
Hungarian People's Republic (Magyar Népköztársaság): Hungary's one-party communist state, 1949–1989, under the 1949 Soviet-style constitution, Rákosi and Nagy, the crushed 1956 revolution, Kádár's rule, and the proclamation of the Hungarian Republic on 23 October 1989.
Hungarian Radio and Television
Hungarian Radio and Television (Magyar Rádió és Televízió Nonprofit Zrt.) is Hungary's 2026-restructured public service media company replacing MTVA, which had run Hungarian television (founded 1953, first broadcast 1957) and public radio since 2011.
Hungarian railway and canal construction
Hungarian railway and canal construction covers railways and waterways in the Kingdom of Hungary, from the first horse-drawn line of 1827 to more than 22,000 km by 1913.
Hungarian railway strike of 1912
The Hungarian railway strike of 1912 was a general strike called in Budapest on 23 May 1912, in which about 100,000 workers stopped work to demand universal suffrage and the resignation of Prime Minister István Tisza.
Hungarian Reform Era
The Hungarian Reform Era (reformkor) was the period from 1825 to 1848 when Hungary's liberal nobility sought to replace feudal society with a modern order through peaceful legal reform.
Hungarian Reformed Church
The Hungarian Reformed Church (Magyarországi Református Egyház) is Hungary's largest Reformed Protestant church, dating its organized existence to the 1567 Synod of Debrecen and governed on a presbyterian-synodal model.
Hungarian refugee crisis of 1956
The Hungarian refugee crisis of 1956 was the flight of about 200,000 people from Hungary after the Soviet crushing of the Hungarian Revolution, mostly to Austria and Yugoslavia.
Hungarian Republic (1919–1920)
Hungarian Republic (1919–1920), also called Republic of Hungary or Hungarian People's Republic, the republican Hungarian state between the Soviet Republic's fall (1 August 1919) and the kingdom's restoration under Governor Horthy (March 1920), ending with the January 1920 elections and Act I of 1920.
Hungarian Revolution of 1848
Hungarian Revolution of 1848 (1848–49 war of independence): Kossuth's March uprising, Batthyány ministry, April Laws abolishing serfdom, defeat by Austria with Russian aid in 1849, legacy in the 1867 Compromise.
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (1956-os forradalom): nationwide uprising against the Soviet-aligned Hungarian People's Republic, starting in Budapest on 23 October 1956, led briefly by Imre Nagy, crushed by Soviet forces on 4 November under Kádár.
Hungarian Romanticism
Hungarian Romanticism (magyar romantika) is the literary movement that reshaped Hungarian literature from the late 1820s into the 1860s, adapting European Romanticism to national language renewal during the Reform Era.
Hungarian Social Democratic Party
The Hungarian Social Democratic Party (Magyarországi Szociáldemokrata Párt, MSZDP) was a socialist workers' party founded in Budapest in 1890 and forced into merger with the Communist Party in 1948.
Hungarian Socialist Party
Hungarian Socialist Party (Magyar Szocialista Párt, MSZP), social democratic successor to the communist MSZMP, founded 7 October 1989. Governed Hungary 1994–1998 and 2002–2010, then declined after the 2006 Öszöd speech scandal, fragmenting into opposition after 2010 and losing parliamentary seats by 2026.
Hungarian Songs
Hungarian Songs (Népdalok) are folk-song-style lyric poems by Sándor Petőfi, written chiefly between 1843 and 1846; set to music, they passed back into the people's own song repertoire.
Hungarian Soviet Republic
Hungarian Soviet Republic (Magyarországi Tanácsköztársaság), council state proclaimed in Budapest 21 March 1919 under Béla Kun, lasted 133 days, fell to military defeat in August 1919.
Hungarian State Opera House
The Hungarian State Opera House (Magyar Állami Operaház) is a Neo-Renaissance opera house on Andrássy Avenue in Budapest, designed by Miklós Ybl, opened in 1884, and restored in 2022.
Hungarian transition to democracy
The Hungarian transition to democracy, known as Rendszerváltás, was the negotiated, largely peaceful end of communist rule through round-table talks and the first free elections since the 1940s, held in 1990.
Hungarian Turanism
Hungarian Turanism (magyar turanizmus) is a Hungarian ideological movement asserting an Asian origin for the Hungarians and kinship with Turkic, Finnic, and other "Turanian" peoples.
Hungarian–Czechoslovak War
The Hungarian–Czechoslovak War was the 1918–1919 conflict between Czechoslovakia and Béla Kun's Hungary over Upper Hungary and Ruthenia, settled by Allied decision and the 1920 Treaty of Trianon.
Hungarian–Romanian War
The Hungarian–Romanian War of 1918–1919 was fought between Romania and Hungary's successive governments over Transylvania after Austria-Hungary's collapse; Romanian forces occupied Budapest on August 4, 1919.
Hungarian–Slovak Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation
The Hungarian–Slovak Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation is a bilateral treaty signed in Paris in 1995 by prime ministers Vladimír Mečiar and Gyula Horn, guaranteeing borders and minority rights.
Hungarians
Hungarians (magyarok, Magyars): Uralic-speaking ethnic group and nation of the Carpathian Basin; ~14.2 million worldwide, two-thirds in Hungary, large minorities in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine after the 1920 Treaty of Trianon.
Hungaroring
Hungaroring: 4.381 km permanent F1 circuit at Mogyoród near Budapest, host of the Hungarian Grand Prix since 1986, the first F1 race behind the Iron Curtain; tight, twisty, low-speed layout nicknamed 'Monaco without the barriers', contracted until 2032.
Hungary
Hungary (Magyarország), Central European parliamentary republic and EU/NATO member founded in 1000; shaped by Trianon, Soviet rule, the Orbán era, and the 2026 Tisza transition.
Hungary in World War II
Hungary in World War II: the Kingdom of Hungary as an Axis ally (November 1940), its Don-front campaigns, the March 1944 German occupation, the deportation of about 437,000 Jews to Auschwitz, Arrow Cross rule, and the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty.
Hungary national football team
Hungary national football team (magyar labdarúgó-válogatott), men's team of the MLSZ, founded 1901. World Cup runners-up 1938 and 1954, Olympic gold 1952, 1964, 1968; the 1950s Golden Team beat England 6-3 at Wembley.
Hunger
Hunger is lack of regular access to enough food for an active, healthy life. Measured by FAO's Prevalence of Undernourishment and the Food Insecurity Experience Scale in the annual SOFI report; SOFI 2026 found hunger at 7.8 percent of the world population.