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7. These seven countries are: Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine and Serbia (and Montenegro).
Germany. Germany 37 percent, Austria 11 percent, Italy 6 percent and The Netherlands 5 percent.
1873. From about 1860-1914 Budapest experienced a period of very rapid growth, which transformed a group of hitherto small cities into a major Central European metropolis, with a population of about 850,000 just before the First World War.
10.1 million. About 20% of the population lives in Budapest (2002).
Danube . The Hungarian name for the Danube is Duna.
Finno-Ugric. Magyar is NOT an Indo-European language, and it is unrelated to the languages spoken in neighboring countries. The other main Finno-Ugric languages are Finnish and Estonian.
1699-1918. From 1541 till about 1690 most of the present area of Hungary was part of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire. Some of the western parts were under Habsburg rule from the late Middle Ages onwards, but the Ottoman Empire continued to expand into many of these areas.
| When was the Austrian Empire turned into the Austro-Hungarian Empire, giving Hungary the status of an almost equal partner within the Empire? | Hungary - Essentials
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1867. The defeat (by Prussia) of Austria in 1866 greatly strengthened the case for reorganizing the Habsburg Empire in a way that made Hungary an almost equal partner with Austria in the Empire. At the same time it was an exercise in 'divide and rule', as from 1867 onwards it was the Hungarians who ruled Croatia, Slovakia and Transylvania as well as what is now Hungary. In 1868 the Hungarians concluded an agreement with Croatia which gave the latter a high degree of autonomy.
1956. The uprising was supressed amid considerable bloodshed, and a large number of Hungarians fled to the West.
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