Kingdom of Hungary Names |
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Regnum Hungariae (Latin) Königreich Ungarn (German) Magyar Királyság (Hungarian) |
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Motto Regnum Mariae Patrona Hungariae "Kingdom of Mary, the Patron of Hungary" |
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Anthem Himnusz Hymn Royal anthem God save, God protect Our Emperor, Our Country! |
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Kingdoms of Hungary (dark green) and Croatia-Slavonia (light green) within Austria-Hungary in 1914
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Capital |
Budapest Historical capitals: Esztergom (10th to mid-13th century) Buda (mid-13th century to 1541)a Pressburg (1536–1783) Debrecen (1849) Székesfehérvár (place of diets, royal seat, crowning and burial site from 1000 to 1543) |
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Languages |
Official languages: Latin (1000–1784; 1790–1844) German (1784–1790; 1849–1867) Hungarian (1844–1849; 1867–1946) Other spoken languages: Romanian, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, Serbian, Italian, Ruthenian, Carpathian Romani, Yiddish, Polish |
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Religion | Roman Catholic,Calvinism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholic, Unitarianism, Judaism | |||||||||||||
Government | Monarchy | |||||||||||||
Monarch | ||||||||||||||
• | 1000–1038 | Stephen I (first) | ||||||||||||
• | 1916–1918 | Charles IV (last) | ||||||||||||
• | 1920–1944 | Regent Miklós Horthy | ||||||||||||
Palatine | ||||||||||||||
• | 1009–1038 | Samuel Aba | ||||||||||||
• | 1847–1848 | Stephen Francis Victor | ||||||||||||
Prime Minister | ||||||||||||||
• | 1848 | Lajos Batthyány | ||||||||||||
• | 1945–1946 | Zoltán Tildy | ||||||||||||
Legislature | Diet (from the 1290s) | |||||||||||||
• | Upper house |
House of Magnates (1867–1918; 1926–1945) |
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• | Lower house |
House of Representatives (1867–1918; 1927–1945) |
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Historical era | 2nd millennium | |||||||||||||
• | Coronation of Stephen I | 25 December 1000 | ||||||||||||
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Ottoman occupation of Buda |
29 August 1541 | ||||||||||||
• | Hungarian Revolution | 15 March 1848 | ||||||||||||
• | 1867 Compromise | 20 March 1867 | ||||||||||||
• | Treaty of Trianon | 4 June 1920 | ||||||||||||
• | Monarchy abolished | 1 February 1946 | ||||||||||||
Area | ||||||||||||||
• | 1910 | 282,870 km² (109,217 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
• | 1930 | 93,073 km² (35,936 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
• | 1941 | 172,149 km² (66,467 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
Population | ||||||||||||||
• | 1711 est. | 3,000,000 | ||||||||||||
• | 1790 est. | 8,000,000 | ||||||||||||
• | 1910 est. | 18,264,533 | ||||||||||||
Density | 64.6 /km² (167.2 /sq mi) | |||||||||||||
• | 1930 est. | 8,688,319 | ||||||||||||
Density | 93.3 /km² (241.8 /sq mi) | |||||||||||||
• | 1941 est. | 14,669,100 | ||||||||||||
Density | 85.2 /km² (220.7 /sq mi) | |||||||||||||
Currency | Florentinus (1325–1553) Thaler Florin (1754–1867) Forint (1867–1892) Korona (1892–1918) Korona (1919–1926) Pengő (1927–1946) Adópengő (1946) |
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Today part of |
Austria Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Hungary Poland Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Ukraine |
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a. | First became capital in 1256 |
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed from the Middle Ages into the twentieth century (1000–1946 with the exception of 1918–1920). The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen I at Esztergom in about the year 1000; his family (the Árpád dynasty) led the monarchy for 300 years. By the 12th century, the kingdom became a European middle power within the Western world.
Due to the Ottoman occupation of the central and southern territories in the 16th century, the monarchy split into three parts: the Habsburg Royal Hungary, Ottoman Hungary and the semi-independent Principality of Transylvania. The House of Habsburg held the Hungarian throne after the Battle of Mohács until 1918 and also played a key role in the liberation wars against the Ottoman Empire.
From 1867 territories connected to the Hungarian crown were incorporated into Austria-Hungary under the name of Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen. The monarchy ended with the deposition of the last king Charles IV in 1918, after which Hungary became a republic. The kingdom was nominally restored during the "Regency" of 1920–46, ending with the Soviet occupation in 1946.