To be fair, 75% of that very thin strip were of German/Austrian descent Edit: For all those complaining, I was giving further context to this very specific point. Furthermore, all those who are pointing out other parts of the empire being given to other countries. Where in my statement did I mention them? I was talking about this one strip of land. Not any others.
As an American who lived in Hungary for 8 years, married a Croatian and now live in Croatia for the past 4 years, this was an amazing video! I see the Hungarian influences all over Croatia in some of the castles and some of the surnames I see around. Great video.
Horvath is among first 10 surenames in Hungary. Hungarians are our brothers whom we do not understand a word but we lived more or less politically in peace (in personal union btw Croatian kingdom and Hungarian kingdom) for 800+years. Croatia is more under Austrian influence (in north - architecture, german influance in language) and Italian (on coast) than Hungarian but for an American it is all the same ;)
"Fun" fact: after WWI the Slavic countries wanted to have a bridge between the northern and southern Slavic nations, and for that they wanted to take now-Burgenland from Hungary. In the end the Entente didn't let them having the bridge but took the territory from Hungary anyway and gave it to Austria who was also defeated in the war
Burgenland was given to Austria because a plebiscite took place and except for one city, other cities and towns decided to join Austria. It's important to note that more than 70% of the Burgenland was ethnically German at the time.
As a Hungarian when I was in Northern Europe (exact destination not stated on purpose), I wanted to visit a really nice mountain. There was a bus going there regularly, and turns out, the driver was a Romanian, working there. It was almost instant friendship. We immediately had a bunch of relatable things to talk about, from corrupt politicians, to the weather being terrible to the crops in both our countries, to the roads in Hungary being shit, but the roads in Romania being even shittier. He knew how to say I love you in Hungarian and several other things, because his wife was of Hungarian descent. When we arrived at our destination I thanked him in Romanian, which drew a big smile from him. But guess what, the lift operator at the foot of the mountain was a Croatian! How did I know? Because he recognized some Hungarian words from me immediately. He said he met a lot of Hungarian tourists back in Croatia and they were always friendly. I told him what a coincidence that "half" of Eastern Europe is meeting here at this random mountain so far away. Well he quickly corrected me Croatia is not Eastern Europe, haha! Everything was perfectly friendly. This is the real world. Not the bitter comments you might read here, or on other social media. Don't give in to corrupt politicians trying to win some votes by talking shit about your neighbors! (Bonus: I met a mountain tour-guide in Slovenia who also immediately started talking about Budapest as soon as he learned I was Hungarian. I asked him which places he visited: the parliament, the castle, the fisherman's bastion? He said only strip clubs but they were f***ing great :D )
they still hold a large chunk of hungarian land. the hungarians are the most heroic nation in europe. they came as a union of tribes and subdued all their enemies and survived and thrived. there are few examples in history like that where a people can achieve so much from scratch.
Ignore the troll above my comment. I’m a Hungarian living in the Uk and has worked with a lot of our neighbours. I only encountered one anti Hungarian but after a talk he has realised we are just people and we have a lot shared culture even tho he was 20+ years older than me he turned out to be a great guy and completely changed his views. Somehow it just feels like whatever is happening on different platforms when it comes to the fallen Hungarian kingdom and they neighbours is so much different in real life.
@@soulkrsxxx im not hate mongering. hungary has and should keep good relations with his neighbours. however, we cannot ignore that the great powers of the time have robbed hungary.
@@williamwallace-m4v The powers did indeed robbed Hungary. But so should a Romanian who was born in 1982 should feel bad? A Slovakian born in 1993 should feel bad? They didn't contribute in any way to that decision. Should a Hungarian born in the last 40 years feel bad for the mistreatment of minorities in the Austro-Hungarian empire? All that matters is what we do now and in the future. The nations of the Carpathian are a great force and there's a reason all foreign powers wanted to divide us since forever. If only we could unite and support each other... we are the people who suffered so much and came through it. We are the ones who never surrender. Romanians, Slovakians, Ukrainians, Serbians, Croatians, Slovenians, Hungarians... a hundred tragedies of history and yet here we all are. I wish we would unite again, not as a single country, but as people who share a common goal and common values.
I remember being on an international camp about a decade ago, where two participants, an Hungarian and a Romanian had an intense dislike for each other - which completely spoiled the camp. Every night became a hostile shouting match about which past family members were massacred by each other’s countries. I never went on another international camp, but I remember the host saying he would request that they couldn’t have people who bore grudges against other nations. On a plus note, both men tried to out do each other on how much firewood they could chop - and between them they chopped about three cords!
Greetings from slovakia. We lived in harmony for most of the time. Our modern history may be little bit rough but ultimately we are similar. Let's hope for better future without hate ✌️
It’s always self interested politicians who stir up the lower class mobs to hide the real reasons for their mysery. Normal people can appreciate the diversity and beauty of our shared history. 🇭🇺
@@KobraTHFC Nobody hurts Slovaks in Hungary. Unfortunately, Hungarians in Slovakia are not liked by many Slovaks. I was in a ski camp in Slovakia when I was a child. in 1989. In front of a buffet, a Slovak shot a Hungarian in the head because he was upset that he spoke Hungarian. There was a case in Bratislava where two boys brutally beat a girl because she was speaking Hungarian on her phone. The Slovak state wanted to convict the girl. In a Slovak museum, a painting was thrown into the corner because it depicted a Hungarian. Hungarian tourists came once and they all photographed this painting. The museum staff did not understand what they were photographing in that painting depicting an unknown Hungarian. Well, because this man founded this museum. Slovaks simply erase their history if it has a Hungarian aspect. Shame.
Fun fact: after World war II Czechoslovakia acquired parts of Hungarian territory with an area of 65.52 km... these territories are located south of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It was joined to Czechoslovakia on October 15, 1947 on the basis of the Paris Peace Conference ,it should have been to enable the construction of the port of Bratislava on the Danube. At that time, from the national point of view, it was a predominantly national Croatian villages
@@min0658 mówisz, ano ;-) A ja z Polski jestem, ale mieszkam we Francji. Szkoda, że Czechosłowacji i Jugosławii już nie ma. Wy byliście pierwszymi krajami w celu jedności Słowian.
Interesting video topic to cover. Like Poland, Hungary seems to have had very bad luck throughout history! But the fact they survived their harsh history is amazing, as so many nations and empires vanish instead.
Hungary had a lot of bad luck: 4 million Transylvanian Romanian slaves decided to secede and unite with Romania, despite the fact that the wise "superior race" 25% Hungarian minority did not agree with that. Ahhh, such injustice! Why Romanians don't understand that DEMOCRACY NOT GOOD! Only listen to "superior races". That is good!
The history of Poland was very similar to the history of Hungary, because the elite layer came from roughly the same Scythian - Sarmatian - Hun elite layer, while the Hungarians were mainly Scythian Huns, while the Poles were mainly Sarmatian. And there is evidence that these elite military tribes kept in touch with each other, because, for example, Hungarian kings or kings' sons often fled to Poland, such as the sons of Vazul as early as the time of the first Hungarian King, Saint Stephen. But the Poles also became Catholics when St. Stephen was still young, at roughly the same time as the Hungarians, the Poles also received authorization for a European Catholic kingdom from the Pope! Then there are also a lot of parallels, that these were the two great kingdoms in Europe that opposed the Mongol invasion very hard, and today there are clear data that it is thanks to the Poles and Hungarians that the Mongol-Tatars did not reach Western Europe! The interests of the two peoples and kingdoms began to diverge with the Ottoman conquests, mainly because the Turks attacked the north half from the south, and thus Hungary was really the only thing in their way, after the Balkan states all failed and even the southern parts of Italy were lost under the Ottoman siege. At that time, the Poles were occupied by conflicts with the Eastern Slavs and Tatars,, but the invasion of the Ottomans did not affect Poland much, while Hungary bled in the southern and eastern areas for more than three hundred years and lost millions of people, until then the Poles were not very involved in these wars. Of course, there was a Hungarian prince from Transylvania, István Báthory, who was chosen by the Poles as their king and who seems to have been quite successful as a Polish king, but he could not even persuade the Polish lords to join the war against the Ottomans. After the expulsion of the Ottomans from Hungary, the Poles and the Hungarians found each other again, because the Habsburgs took over the place of the Ottomans, who also claimed the territories of the Poles and the Hungarians! But the problem was that while the Thökölys, Rákóczis, and Wesselényis always kept Hungarian interests in mind and therefore waged bloody battles against the Habsburgs even with the help of the Poles, some of the Hungarian lords all tried to come to terms with the Habsburgs. And these lords and their successors brought Hungary into that union with the Austrians, from which Hungary and the Hungarian people could only come out as losers at the end of the First World War, and brought all the devastation and loss of territory to the country that the Hungarian people did not deserve!
the difference is that hungarians weren't in fact european at all but asian. They should be happy that they still have a country to live in, taken that they only made bad moves in recent history
@@gigikontra7023 Why don't you go back to sotuhern Balkans, from where your late.-nomad Vlach ancestors migrated to modern territory of Romania in the 13th century.
As a Romanian living in France I like to meet Hungarians, they always prove to be friendly and happy to help, my best friend in a Hungarian from Budapest. At a government level Hungary helped and is helping Romania; they supported us to join the EU and are in top 5 of our economic partners. Hungarians in the big cities of Transylvania like Cluj, Brasov and Oradea are cool and friendly. I am just tired to read hateful youtube comments from the Hungarians in the small mountain villages inside Romania. And yes, I am happy that people talk about the history of central and eastern Europe because otherwise it minimizes the importance of our history and cultures. For example it was very hard for me to find a video about Trianon in French, people simply don't care about the East.
@@zsomborbajko5265 Cat timp nu va mai plangeti ca traiti in Romania, si veti accepta odata pentru totdeauna ca Transilvania VA FI a Romaniei, noi va vom respecta, atat de putin va cerem.. (si aici nu ma refer neaparat la tine, care ai comentat, ci la maghiarii care traiesc in tara noastra/in ungaria si tot viseaza la "ungaria mare")
Buna ziua. Si au am un intrebare. Voi de ce nu puteti sa acceptati, ca noi suntem magharii? Suntem in romania asta este... dar de ce faceti prostia, ca cine nu are un mare steag românesc pe casa lui trebuie sa fuge acasa la budapesta? Eu asta nu am inteles in viata mea, ca oke, nu stiu bine in limba romana, nu vorbesc perfect, dar si eu platesc impozitul, si incerc sa vorbesc cu limba romana cum stiu, dar zi de zi am primit ca: "dute inapoi la budapesta (si aicia vine ceva urat :) ).
@@Aazar4th Eu sunt impresionat cat de bine vorbiti limba romana. Cred ca ar trebui date mai multe amenzi huliganilor care transmit mesaje de ura, de exemplu suporterilor de fotbal care spun rele despre maghiari. Secuii au luptat alaturi de romani impotriva invadatorilor turci in cateva batalii, de exemplu.
@@makavelisoft I had to use Google Translate so I might not get exactly what you said, but your comment does not make any sense to me. Romanians were the ones that dreamt of "Great Romania" in the first place and guess what, they even made it happen. What does respect have to do with the other one's wishes ("dreams" if you like)? Do you really expect Hungarians dreaming of being (or even becoming) part of Romania? We are Hungarians, obviously, we want to live in the same country with our brothers like we did before. The fact that it's impossible is another story. It's absolutely our business whether we (or anyone, for that matter) like to live in Romania or not.
8:20 It's actually the Principality of Transylvania, not Upper Hungary. The last sovereign monarch of Hungary, King John Szapolyai I. fled to Transylvania, estabilishing the Kingdom of Eastern Hungary. His son could've maintained that title, but decided not to, so he became the first voivode of Transylvania instead. Upper Hungary later gained 'independence', and was ruled by a different prince, than that of Transylvania's. Both had de-facto independencd, but were Ottoman vassals.
YES! Finally, somebody from hungary that recognizes the fact that Transilvania, for hundreds of years was an Ottoman vassal, an autonomous region after, and only in recent years, before ww1, was it integrated in the austrian empire (later austro-hungarian) but by then it had a romanian majority, that's why we got it and still have it, even though we lost ww2.
@@makavelisoft Its something that every Hungarian knows. This era is a large material in Hungarian elementary school. Later it is teached in more detail in middle school.
He didn't establish Eastern Hungary, that's a title used by modern Historians to distinguish the realm of King Zapolya and his sons realm John Sigismund Zapolya. What we call today Eastern Hungary was still Kingdom of Hungary until 1570. The Habsburgs ruled something called Royal Hungary which Ferdinand and Maximilian wanted to unite with "Eastern Hungary" but after John the First died, his son John Sigismund Zapolya abandoned his title of Elected King of Hungary and wasn't crowned with the Holy Crown of Hungary but Maximilian II was Crowned with it as the King of Royal Hungary. So after the Treaty of Spreyer marked a new Semi-independent Principality which would be Transylvania.
Anyone else think the Treaty of Trianon was a bit harsh on Hungary? I mean they didn't wanna join WW1, they were forced to. Also if any Hungarians are watching and seeing this comment, love from the US 🇺🇲❤️🇭🇺
@༒ PERSEUS ༒ I meant if any people who are currently living in Hungary were watching and reading the comment. Also I'm not big on WW1 history so excuse that.
@@Drakrau_TheDerg a "small but lod minority", mostly right-wing extremists think it was totally unjust and should be revisioned. The majority is on the side of "yes, it was erring on the side of our current neighbors, but cannot be considered illogical if you wanted to give each nation its own country" (still, the quite extreme thought of the former Yugoslavia questions this intention a bit) imo the pre- and during ww2 borders (some variants of 1938-1941) have correlated the most to the then-actual distribution of nations, but as 100 years since Trianon treaty and 80 since ww2, there's really nothing to reconsider now. Virtually noone alive has been personally affected by border changes, and no sensible grandparent would tell its grandchildren to fight and risk their lives for the territories my country once had, 'in the days when i was your age. Now go and shoot your neighbor'. There are no irreconcilable differences between our and our neighbours cultural backgrounds, also the borders are quite easy to cross (at least within EU/Schengen area they are virtually nonexistent), and speaking in general, minorities on any side of the borders are treated in an adequately tolerable way (of course, with less or more room for improvement on both political and individual levels). In general, EU seems as the local guarantee for long term peace, byforcing fair minority policies, having open borders, being able to relocate to anywhere, common currency (maybe later...), and also a strong economical interdependence (or a common dependence on german car industry). Only a generally accepted common language is what i think we truly miss, as only a relatively low share of population speak even a little English in the CEu region (compared to other eu regions with the exception of France :D)
is it a question that the treaty was a bit harsh? what would you say if your country were 1/3 part of it, and even 100 years later your nation were oppressed by the winners? just because Austria wanted a war. are you foreigners totally ignorant?
@timeanagy8495 I just meant that did anyone else think it was harsh.. And I may be a dumb American, but I know enough about history to agree with the Hungarians that the Treaty of Trianon was harsh on Hungary.
The Principality of Upper Hungary was only a short lived renegade state rebbelling against royal Habsburg rule supported by the Ottomans. While the Principality of Transylvania, sometimes refered to as Eastern Hungary in english sources became a stable Ottoman vassal, a rival of royal Hungary. Transylvania's rule extended into eastern Hungary and was ruled by a protestant Hungarian elite.
@@OrthodoxCrusader83 Your nationalistic fever doesn't change the fact that I was simply pointing out that some english sources refer to The Principality of Transylvania as The Kingdom of Eastern Hungary.
Hungary and Croatia had the same king because wife of last Croatian King was Hungarian and the nobles accepted that king "Pacta Conventa" but in reallity Croatia always had its own parliament and autonomy.
it is called personal union....as we were taught, we created a union, wich worked for hundreds of years....but I am not afraid of that the European Union would have such a long life
The Croatian-Hungarian Coalition was formed in the 13th century because by those times the croatians had got that much fed up from the decades(if not centuries) long attacks from the venetians that they asked us to protect them with Croatia joining our kingdom! 😉
I watch every one of your videos for about 2 years, I really enjoy them, thank you for making a Hungary related one! Cheers (or Egészségedre ) from Hungary!
If I remember correctly from history lessons Northern Hungary was fully independent and was seeking polish support to push back both the ottomans and the habsburgs. Transylvania offered itself to be a vassal state, mostly keeping autonomy but the sultan responded to unwanted laws by raiding southern cities/villages. Western hungary was as you mentioned ruled by habsburgs. There was a war that later got most of Northern Hungary to the habsburgs. Transylvania was the naughtiest of them all by offering the habsburgs rule over the country while still paying taxes to the ottomans and they did that at least 3 times.
Transilvania nu s-a oferit niciodata ca stat vasal. A fost ocupata cu Forta de catre imepriul Austro - Ungar. Tanand cont de istoria Roamaniei Dacii au fost pe aceste meleaguri cu 5000 de Ani inainte ca poporul Ungar sa se aseze in campia panonica.
The Principality of Transylvania was the one who seeked polish support, even managed to capture the polish crown. Upper Hungary was a rebellion/rogue state
Because I know this will come up here: I do not understand how you can find personal comfort in the size of yout country, Hungarians you can be proud of your lovely culture, your unique language. Please don't forget that this is what makes your country great and not its borders. ❤Mágyarország from Germany Damn I definetly misspelled that
Yes, sadly after Hungary was defeated by the ottomans and millions killed/population reduced by 20-40%, Hungary was never the same. Some people still to this day have hard time accepting that once the population was 70% hun and 30% neighboured nation is now 10%hun And 90% other and reducing. People still hope that if we would take back those lands we could recover the traditions or start over after the 1500s. But it's just not possible and we don't want to hurt people there today for our history.
@@heb-agar6119 The painting titled The Arrival of the Hungarians is the largest Hungarian work of art to date. It shows the arrival of the Hungarians to their new homeland: the moment when, under the leadership of Arpad, the Hungarian tribes cross the border of the Carpathian Basin in the Verecka Gorge. The circular painting was originally exhibited in Budapest, and later transferred to Opusztaszer, today's National Memorial Historic Park. So, this painting clearly shows that Hungarians came in a populated region and that they were brutal invaders, who burned settlements, looted, killed and enslaved the population they found. Hungarians should remember that before this ratio between Hungarians and neighbors of 70-30, there was a different situation, where there were many more "neighbors" and there were no Hungarians at all.
@@sofijajovanovic2404 We try to condemn the actions of ppl living in the past, from our point of view, in modern times, where morality has a meaning. Back in the days there was no morality in any nation. You Killed, you Lived, you could not kill, you were dead and disappeared. Any nation present on the face of the earth today, are those who Killed the Most. Dont try to paint them as "bad people" for playing the game everyone played back then. Taking over lands, pushing out nations from their homeland was the name of the game and those who could not do it were enslaved or deleted. "Brutal invaders" were the survivors back then, not brutal invades. Just to give you a context on how to comprehend the actions of the ppl in those times. They didnt killed just for the fun of it, they had to, to survive. Its the same feeling for what you wake up in the morning and go to work, to provide for your family and secure their safety, just the methods and the times changed.
@@KonradTamas If this mental construct will make you happy, to feel more comfortable as a Hungarian, go ahead. But it is not true that we were all the same - immoral. In the eyes of a thief, everyone else is a thief.
You should have explained how Hungary expanded in the 12t century. Like this it seems like it conquered Croatia rather than coming into union with Croat nobles.
Yeah the Hungarians only gained Croatia cause many of the Croatian nobles saw the Hungarian King’s claim as legitimate and supported him , the kingdoms were brought together as a union.
Great video! My father is half Hungarian and half Korean. The Hungarian side is actually harder to explain to other people without having to go all the way back to my great grandfather. I don't personally know a lot of Hungarians here in NJ, but I learned that the "hub" here during WWII was in Trenton, NJ exactly where my great grandfather escaped to. My last name is often mistaken for being German or Romanian. My father did some research of his grandfather's roots and we're from a little place called Gara in southern Hungary.
Fun fact: Up to this day you can see bumper stickers on cars in Hungary depicting the pre-1920 map aka the so called Great Hungary. You can also find t-shirts, wall clocks and other swag with that map. Today it's a bit similar symbol to the confederate flag in the US, meaning it's highly contraversial and represents certain political affiliation.
@Szilárd Takács Yes, all all neighbors lie 😂 the reality is that the Austrians maintained order in the monarchy until 1867... after the Austro-Hungarian settlement of 1867, Magyarization began and you wanted to fulfill your dream called Great Hungary (in territories where Hungarians did not even make up 50% of the population)... so don't be surprised that at the first opportunity (World War 1 was lost) everyone gave up on your great Hungary... I have nothing against Hungarians, I also admire Orban and his geopolitical views, but stop crying for something that happened 100 years ago and it wasn't even yours...
@Szilárd Takács Just that there is no evidence in Hungarian sources or any other sources of Romanians immigrating into your territory. Early Hungarian chronicles constantly depict Romanians as the main actors in their struggle for control of Transylvania.
Hungary in the 17th century was divided into four pieces. Royal Monarchy belonging to the Habsburgs, the middle part under Ottoman control, Thököly’s short-lived state from 1682 which was a rebel and vassal state of the kuruc people, and Transylvania which was a vassal state as well but had quite wide range of autonomy. And I have to correct your mistake: after 1918 Yugoslavia did not exist, it run under the name of Serb-Croat-Slovene Kingdom. Yugoslavia was established in 1929.
Despite the Volatile history, today, most countries bordering Hungary retain cordial relations. Slovakia, Austria, and Croatia are the ones I know for sure have let bygones be bygones, and I am hoping that our current long held peace is maintained.
Only on the surface bro! We have to carry on with our lives. But I do not forget what happened and by who. So if you ever see a drunk Hungarian, do not bring up this topic, for your own safety.
Actually, if we lool at the governments, Hungary has good relationship with everyone except for Ukraine. There are in fact some conflicts sometimes, but that is always just hysteria from the countries that border Hungary. No offense but this is truth. There are always some Hungarophobic politicians who create conflicts on purpose
@@bazsamester I can assure you Hungary has good relationships with nobody but Russia. Go to Romania and ask "what do you think about hungarians"... see what you get.
About Upper Hungary: It's a bit complicated, so I had to dig in, and here's what I found: The leader of the Principality of Upper Hungary was Thököly Imre, who lost his family and most of its land to the Habsburg, which, as you said, ruled Royal Hungary, because they thought, that his father was in a plot against the Habsburgs. He collected all the people in Transylvania and Royal Hungary, who hated the Habsburg rule (they're called "bujdosók" in Hungarian, later "kurucok"), and created a small army. He was supported by the Ottomans of course because they had the same enemy. He was able to conquer quite a land for himself, and in 1682, the Ottomans crowned him as king of Hungary, and thus Upper Hungary was born, as an Osman vassal state. It didn't last long though, because in 1685 the Habsburgs finally have beaten the Ottomans, recapturing Buda in 1686, and he lost his territory. He tried multiple times to get back his land but failed, and in 1690 he became the leader of Transylvania, but for one month.
And did you not see anywhere in the archival data that the Habsburgs ruled northern and western Hungary as the legal successors of the Hungarian kings? Because the territories of the medieval Hungarian kingdom could not have been owned without the consent of the great Hungarian lords, such as the very rich Esterházys! It is everywhere in the archival data that the remaining Hungarian kingdom was under the Habsburg rulers and not under Austria or any other name! But your anti-Hungarian historians don't teach you that, do they?
@@szakaattila7899 Hi, I never stated, that anything you say wouldn't be true. Yes, indeed the Habsburgs ruled the northern and western parts of Hungary (here called Royal Hungary), from the coronation of Ferdinand I., until the Treaty of Karlowitz (after that the whole country). I just don't understand the aggressive tone. Btw I am a Hungarian as well. Have a good day!
My Mother and I were born in Hungary. My parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc were hungarian. My grandma' was born in Hungary, now Slovakia. My father in Erdély=Transylvania, now Romania. As I go back my family tree, we came from (now) Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria. If someone asks me where I'm from, i usually say: from Europe. Not easy to explain....
I am (italian-)hungarian, and I have been travelled all over what we could call "old/big" hungary, and most of the time, it didn't feel hungarian. The people there did not speak hungarian, nor considered themselves to be hungarian. Different culture, lifestyle and mindset was what awaited me in the locals. The only big exception where I felt like I was in Hungary was when I was traveling through Romania's Harghita, Covasna and Mureş counties. Basically modern day Székely-land. And parts of Vojvodina. Most of the other places were never really inhabited by hungarians, nor influenced by them. In hungary you see many people praising "old-hungary", most of the time they put stickers on their cars which resemble it. But... I don't quite get it... A great example is my stepfather, who is very much nationalistic (and has very... "interesting"... far-right views). Who, when I was younger, used to tell me that millions of hungarians were trapped outside of hungary when the treaty happened. Saying that all lost territories were inhabited 100% by hungarians, he is not the only one who I've heard this from. But this is not really true... as where hungarians actually lived has a similar territory-shape to as of modern day hungary (except for that exclave in Transylvania). I'm not sure whether if the people are just uneducated... or ignorant. I'm a bit sad. Because this obviously comes with hate towards other ethnicities (I tend to often hear my father call romanians "dirty gypsies", or basically cuss at any other ethnicity that is not hungarian, he also tends to abuse me and my mother for being half-italian) and this thing passes on from generation to generation. The majority of the time the aggression comes from hungarians. Which really saddens me honestly. Because I have had many friends from all over the world... and it is really not history, nor their government which defines them (supposing they can think freely, lol)
Yeah my hungarian grand grand father had to fight for romania in second World war in odessa Was shot two times fighting for romanians as he was from bottom side of transylvania while my romanian grand grand father didnt fought in the war the región was populated by hungarians but were used to fight wars, my hungarian father in communism he worked for the government and was sent to all sides of romania same as other hungarians diversed everywhere , you dont see that infuriating ?
@@zoltan6451 I don't quite agree... I don't believe someones behaviour is influenced by their heritage. All humans are humans. They all have the same blood. They all think according to how others think around them. Maybe you mean "blood" as mentality... in which case... yes. Hungarians could be looked at as "warriors". But yet... why do we need to fight? Why do we need to be stronger and more superior than others? Why can't we just... work along...? And co-exist, if you know what I mean.
I just found out from the comment section that God is actually hungarian.. his name is Gyozo-Jesus and he was born in Budapest. Also, Cristopher Columbus was hungarian too. The original name of America was Orban-vasarhely, but some hungarophobe changed it. The more you know...
also found out that dacian theory is a fairytale made to claim land wich is not rightfully romanian the more you know about vlach history and the language romania used before the year 1800... also my hungarian grand grand father had to fight for romania in odessa was shot two times while romanian grand grand father didnt fight in world war two one of the reasons why many hungarians are missing from transylvania
@@General.Knowledge and in the 13th century hungary and poland had a union under the second anjou king you forgor. it was a big deal at the time, thats what the bases of V4 today...or what will be left of it :(
Very nice timeline very easy to follow up and I have to say it is very accurate! One of the best presentation of Hungarian History highlighting the milestones and mayor affect but with no unnecessary or foolish misunderstandings! Greetings from Hungary :) ! ! !
Ah yes, the famous "Honfoglalas" depicted in AOE II DE homologous scenario, which explains a bit about the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian basis. Great content mate!
@@General.Knowledge could you do romania ? And how their language changed from the year 1800 from church slavonic to french? And the lies of dacian theory?
Thank you for sharing our history. Maybe as many nations as many oppinions, but if the Hungarian Kingdom had been so terrible, we wouldn't be able to talk about the successor states today...
Positioning of a few map overlays are inaccurate - sometimes to a misleading extent. At 13:39, this is pretty noticeable. The part, where Bács-Bodrog is written (and the city of Arad, Nagyvárad, Szatmárnémeti, Kassa), does not belong currently to Hungary just to note a few. Bigger rivers and short names of bigger cities could have given a clue about where the white overlay should have been positioned.
Plus informations: After the Treaty of Trianon, there were still several border changes with some little villages, because there were cases when the borders weren't actually there where they supposed to be according to treaty. And also there was the case of Sopron (a big city nowadays) where they held a referendum about which country they want to be with, and they joined Hungary against Austria. Another plus information: After WW2, Hungary didn't get the exact same borders as it had before the war, 3 more villages were also taken away from then. Btw it's a really great video, unfortunately in this topic there are a lot of misinformations, especially when the nations that were included in Trianon tell the story. But this video was great and there weren't any big lies. There were things that should have been said but weren't, but still great video
Yeah the Sporon/Ödenburg case is interesting, because the city and its surrounding Villages were 80% German speaking, but since Austria wasn't allowed to send their own people overwatching the vote,only the Hungarians were and so most ethnic Germans weren't allowed to vote and with that ended up with a yes for Hungary
A couple of corrections. The partition of Hungary after the Battle of Mohács was a little different. It fell into the Turkish occupied part, Royal Hungary and the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (not Upper Hungary which was only a very short lived creation) that later became the Principality of Transylvania. Upper Hungary was in fact split between Royal Hungary and Transylvania The other point: the encircled territory that you refer to as Hungarian majority in 1918 is actually way bigger (+ca. 20-25%) than Hungary is today. The 3rd one: the territorial gains before and during WW2 are nowhere near to the size of Hungary before WW1.
I was expecting to see hungarians and romanians arguing in the comments, but I am not entirely disappointed, now there are Slovakians arguing with Hungarians. :D
As a Slovak, I do not have problems with Hungarians. I just don’t like the ultranationalists (sometimes lot of them have Slovak/Slavic surnames, which are one of the most common i Hungary - Tóth = Slovak, Kovács = Kováč, Molnár = Mlynár, Takács = Tkáč etc.), which spread a lot of hate against Slovaks. Our ancestors lived pretty well together for hundreds of years, but yes, the last 80 years of Kingdom of Hungary had very bad effect on Slovaks 😔 🇸🇰🇭🇺
yeah if we were a bit smart we would set our differences asside and grow bigger to not beeing pushed arround we are weak having little piece of land and beeing separated greeting from a transylvanian
You are right. There is no place in world that is known to us and has only one type of people or etnicity. People were mixing with others ever since we left caves. So, in that case, there is not anyone who can say he is only this or that. In Central Europe we are all connected and mixed together. There is not much difference in people living in Slovakia or in Hungary. Yes, sure, we can have different characteristics, different personalities and we do have slightly different mentality and culture, not to mention language, but in the end, we are basically the same. You may disagree, you may object and essentially, the difference is only in what side of the border you were born and how your ancestors adapted to their reality.
I agree with you, idiotic ultranationalists ruin everything. I do hope that one day we can let bygones be bygones and you can forgive us for the magyarization. I do have to point out that a lot of Hungarian surnames are actually the names of jobs and the examples you bring are all that (with the exception of Tóth). Kovács means blacksmith, molnár means miller and takács means weaver.
Great video and historical presentation. Thanx. As time goes by I hope that our relationship with all of our neighbours around us will be bit by bit better and friendlier every year (especially within the EU). Greetings from Hungary. ;-)
As a proud bearer of Hungarian ancestry I really like that historians, anthropologists and linguists give some love to one of the most ancient states in Europe.
It's one of the newest bro... Literally 20th century. 1918 isn't ancient. 1867 if you're counting from when Hungary became its own kingdom within Austria, but it's hard to make a case that this was the same state since it became a democratic republic when it finally became its own state after WW1.
@@romanvlach5293 yes, is a common surname across the area. Mine is spelled Kovács and is the 4th most common in Hungary. I am aware of the cultural and ethnical mix Magyars had with the local inhabitants.
You must also add that Hungarians do not originated from Europe, they invade Europe from Urals, Western Siberia, and occupied present and also past teritories of Hungaria. Hungarians are actually a mixture of Asian Ugric (a Siberian population in Russia) and Turks. Perhaps this history can explain present day Hungarians afinity to autocracy and communism and also the tight connection with Russia.
All life and all people came from afrika thousands of years ago. As a hungarian i say we're all humans and fuck the borders. We have to respect each other regardless of religion or ethnic differences. Yes, we lost a bunch of territories. Sad, move on. If the romanians or slovakians were given rights back than and let them speak their own language, wasn't forced to speak hungarian, maybe they didn't wanted to be separated from the hungarians... This hatred must stop. Our nations lived so long time together and next to each other, it would be a miracle not to mix with each other. In Hungary, and i think in the rest of europe too, hard to find a person who is not a mixture of some other nation as well than his own nationality.
There's a small error in the thumbnail image. The Carpathian Ruthenia territory ceded to Hungary from Slovakia went to the USSR after WW2 and remains with Ukraine in 2022.
The Hungarian word árpa was borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries), from Proto-Turkic *arpa.[5][6][4] The Hungarians cohabited for centuries with Turkic people, which accounts for over 10% word roots in modern Hungarian being Turkic. In Hungarian, most pastoral terms are Turkic in origin, and agricultural terms are 50% r-Turkic. Many Hungarian names, and also animal and plant names,[7] are of Turkic origin, and the majority of tribe names were of Turkic origin.[8]Turkic is, along with Uralic, German and Slavic, one of the four languages that have the greatest percentage of word roots in the Hungarian language. However, the Magyars are not a Turkic people, though the Turks made a genetic and linguistic contribution.[9][10]
They are a part of the Uralic group, including the Finns, Estonians, Bulgarians and more, but the uralic group is connected to the altaic tree, which turkic is a part of, the Ural altaic language tree consists of uralic, turkic, japonic and mongolic language groups, but almost all of them are connected to the huns and the turan idea, love to Hungary from Turkey 🇹🇷❤🇭🇺
The balkans are really looked over throughout history. I won't say that modern Europe was shaped by the Balkans, but realize if the ottomans went through us, modern history would be very, very different
Upper Hungary was part of the Austrian empire and Transilvania was a semi-vassal of the Turks. Matthias Corvinus is an attached name. He was Hunyadi Mátyás (family and first name respectively)
Attached name lol... It was his "international" name, since in his time, Latin was still lingua franca. Nobody outside of your country would call him Hunyadi Mátyás.
@@raul88.88 yeah what is the name of Gyulafehérvár in romanian its just translations mate the guy was hungarian , vlad the impaler maybe was romanian and hungarian maybe .
Great video, but I'm suprised that you didn't mention that The Kingdom of Croatia was in a personal union with The Hungarian Kingdom for 800 years And a question for General Knowledge: Why Hungary? I am happy for the video as a hungarian, but confused due to Hungaries irrelevancy compared to UK, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey.
Perhaps because Hungarians (much like us Finns and our brothers in the south, Estonians) represent a culturally, linguistically and historically distinct group of people in Europe. I don't think Hungary is irrelevant. Even we learned in history class how powerful Hungary and the Austro-Hungarian empire was long ago.
@@predacorneliu Bruh this is a video from an OUTSIDE SOURCE, he's neither hungarian nor romanian, at least to my knowledge. He just made a video from historic sources.
At 12:13 when you mention Slovakia. Slovakia was not annexed by Germany. They declared independence on March 15 1939 as a fascist state under the „protection” of German Reich. Just to correct a teeny tiny flaw. Otherwise amazing video my friend! Keep up the good work ;)
The funny thing is, Hungary lost 75% of his territory because of a war which the Austrians wanted, and the Hungarians fought politically against declaring the war, but they had no chance against the majority of Austrian politicans.
Friend, Hungary lost territory not for the war but because it didn't belong to them, it belonged to the people who made up the majority population. War or not, self-determination could not have been stopped 🤗
@@0NG4RN as a Romanian myself, I totally understand the spiritual loss of Hungarians when they say they lost 4 million Transylvanian Romanian slaves. It used to be so nice back then! Romanians were forbidden to live in the cities, they had to work on Hungarian plantations, and Hungarian MINORITY of 25% could rule everything (all administrative papers were in Hungarian, Romanians had ZERO political representation) and thus the "superior race" could engage in spiritually superior activities such as parties, drinking cocktails and going to the theatre. Oh, and cutting down all the forests to get rich! Yeah, it used to be so nice!
@@bitterblue8115 That's why 3 millions of hungarians get out in a foreign country in a day, without leaving their houses, after a very-very bad decicion made, after WW1. :o
@@pr0gn0sis65 disingenuous comment : Hungarians of Romania have 15% of the ministers in the government in Bucharest, despite only having 6% of the population. However, Romanians had ZERO political representation I. The Austro-Hungarian empire. Do you understand now?
I have a question, what do Hungarians think of Serbia and Serbs and what Serbs think of Hungary and Hungarians? I am neither Serbian nor Hungarian but I am wondering, bcs I heard that many of them don't like each other because of events in 1920-1930-1940s, I hope no one hates anybody anymore... Greetings from Bulgaria 🇧🇬❤️🇷🇸🇭🇺 👌
Being a Serb from Subotica/Szabadka the northern most city in Serbia I can say we have great relations, many of my friends are Hungarian and we don’t even talk about any nationalistic issues. My city is known as a cultural city of Hungarians, we didn’t even have any issues in 90’s Yugoslav wars. Currently politically our two countries are having best relations ever with Orban and Vucic being friends privately too. (Not a fan of Vucic though) but I like Hungary being so different from others, especially their language. All in all Szeretlek Magyarorszag ❤️
Serbs, especially in recent years have friendly relations with Hungarians in Vojvodina and like Hungary overall. We even have a recent national hero from 90s that was Hungarian and everyone from ordinary people to hard nationalists honour him. Don't know what Hungarians in Hungary think of Serbs much tho, but I know in Vojvodina we like and value each other.
2:18 somehow you forgot Slavs, that were there for 4 centuries, with Great Moravia kingdom for 2 centuries. Also the thumbnail image of video is inaccurate, in 2022 Slovakia does not have Ruthenia, that's part of Ukraine (Soviet) since the end of WWII.
The Avar khaganate settled the slavs to central europe, so, he mention the khaganate, its enough. Slavs held territory less than 70 years in the pannonian basin.
8:35 you are wrong actually, the principality of upper hungary was apart of the Habsburg Hungarian Kingdom. the nation broke into 3 pieces: Ottoman Hungary, Transylvania and the HHK. both the HHK and Transylvania was against the Ottomans (while fighting each other too).
Fun facts: neither Czechoslovakia, Romania or Yugoslavia had referendum in 1920 when Hungary was butchered to pieces. In fact, the exercise was not more than a land grab based on our lies, which the French and the Britishtook prima facie. For example, Benes told the peace committee in Versailles that a creek in the eastern city of Sátoraljaújhely was a ‘navigable river’ suitable for a future border. Of course, he forgot to mention the committee that this way Czechoslovakia acquired an important regional railway hub in that city. The Romanians also took a lot of territories with a Hungarian majority, for example Partium (an area which now lies in Romania close to the Hungarian border). Thus they acquired a strategically important railway line between Arad and Szatmárnémeti. Of course all this was done under the lofty ideas of ‘self-determination’. Despicable lies, that the victorious French and British took hook, line and sinker.
During the ottoman invasions, hungary broke into 3 parts (and later 4 for a bit). The biggest territory was controlled by the ottomans (mainly southern hungary), to the east, there was the Transylavnian Principality, which was hungarian, but they paid the ottomans annually so the ottomans wont attack them (so basically they were an ottoman puppet state, as later on a lot of rulers we're backed up by the ottomans, not the people living there). And then there was the Hungarian kingdom, which was all of northwest and western hungary btw (this includes croatia and upper hungary and the land inbetween them). Upper hungary changed hands a few times, between the Hungarian kingdom (which was controlled by Austria) and Transylvania. Then in 1682, Hungary broke into 4 parts, as Upper Hungary broke away from the rest of the Hungarian kingdom, which wasn't controlled by the ottomans, but the leader of upper hungary was very much leaning towards the ottomans (So much so that during the freeing of hungarian territory they was on the ottoman's side, and Thököly Imre (upper hungary's leader)'s wife actually held out against Austrian forces for 2 years in a small bastion.
you only say that because the Romanian government wants to have a good relatiobship with the Serbian neighbour. but let's be real. Romania, Greece and Albania need to stay strong against the Slavs. the Magyars can be cool as well but first they need to stop with their revisionism(13th century vlach migration from Illyria, 19th century freemasonic inventions, Hunor-Magor, Scythians etc)
Most of the them failed and although they are national days in hungary not much changed with them. They are mostly just to raise nationalism in the country
I'm Hungarian, and I learned more about my country's history in this 14 minute video than alltogether in the four years my elementary school taught me about it. This video was awesome in my opinion, and I hope you make more stuff like this about other countries too. Sorry for the bad English, I learned most of it from the internet.
well..this is sad from more points. i loved history and learned a lot in high school so i never had a problem understanding historical contexts BUT and there is the but, my classmates who weren't really keen on it have/had the same experience as you. elementary school is like a tutorial of a game..not much but then comes the worst :D There was nothing wrong with your english
Oh no. You must have had a bad teacher or weren't interested in History when young. I remember a lot of this from History class. Well, I'm glad you learnt a lot.
I am from Hungary. Actually a lot of Hungarian people still can not get over "Trianon". It is a tragic punishment after WW1 but I find overreacted that in my country some people want the old Hungarian borderlines back. Great video tho
@@zoltan6451 The occupation of the magyar nomad tribes which pillaged and robbed teritoriu from the indigen nation all around Panonia plains where they came in 9th century...
Hungarians and turkish peoples are brothers and sisters...all other peoples around hungary are false friends...They took the land of hungarians and now seems to be good to hungarians.. 😢 TURKEY + HUNGARY we have the same grandfather: ❤ A T T I L A ❤
*Which other country's territorial evolution should I make a video on next?*
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Romania has a lot of history border. You should consider it in future videos
Iceland🤣
Seriously, Iran I guess, from Persian Empire to Kingdom to Islamic Republic
Russia
How about Czechia, aka medieval Bohemia
Denmark and/or Sweden
Fun fact: after ww1, hungary had to cede territory to austria. The country that they previously went to war together as a union/empire.
Only true fans austria is spelled like astria
To be fair, 75% of that very thin strip were of German/Austrian descent
Edit: For all those complaining, I was giving further context to this very specific point. Furthermore, all those who are pointing out other parts of the empire being given to other countries. Where in my statement did I mention them? I was talking about this one strip of land. Not any others.
It wasn't decided by the Entente powers, but by the results of the plebiscite
as an old german saying says:"better give up land to latins and germans, than for the slavs"
@@porphyry17 well Czechoslovakia remained democracy until start of ww2 unlike some German and latin nations, curious....
As an American who lived in Hungary for 8 years, married a Croatian and now live in Croatia for the past 4 years, this was an amazing video! I see the Hungarian influences all over Croatia in some of the castles and some of the surnames I see around. Great video.
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@@god6326 what wrong
Horvath is among first 10 surenames in Hungary. Hungarians are our brothers whom we do not understand a word but we lived more or less politically in peace (in personal union btw Croatian kingdom and Hungarian kingdom) for 800+years.
Croatia is more under Austrian influence (in north - architecture, german influance in language) and Italian (on coast) than Hungarian but for an American it is all the same ;)
Koja imena ; Horvat, Kovač?😂😂
Croatians are really good people.
As Croat I love Hungarians most of them are actually pretty cool and friendly people. I also like their language it sounds cool.
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The best battle of many that we had against the Ottomans en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Szigetv%C3%A1r
Until they want to take our sea :P
@@Joso997 well, some of us want to have back our sea we had, but not by force. Personally i'd prefer an union between us.
"Fun" fact: after WWI the Slavic countries wanted to have a bridge between the northern and southern Slavic nations, and for that they wanted to take now-Burgenland from Hungary. In the end the Entente didn't let them having the bridge but took the territory from Hungary anyway and gave it to Austria who was also defeated in the war
So fair....
Burgenland was given to Austria because a plebiscite took place and except for one city, other cities and towns decided to join Austria. It's important to note that more than 70% of the Burgenland was ethnically German at the time.
As a Hungarian when I was in Northern Europe (exact destination not stated on purpose), I wanted to visit a really nice mountain. There was a bus going there regularly, and turns out, the driver was a Romanian, working there. It was almost instant friendship.
We immediately had a bunch of relatable things to talk about, from corrupt politicians, to the weather being terrible to the crops in both our countries, to the roads in Hungary being shit, but the roads in Romania being even shittier. He knew how to say I love you in Hungarian and several other things, because his wife was of Hungarian descent. When we arrived at our destination I thanked him in Romanian, which drew a big smile from him.
But guess what, the lift operator at the foot of the mountain was a Croatian! How did I know? Because he recognized some Hungarian words from me immediately. He said he met a lot of Hungarian tourists back in Croatia and they were always friendly. I told him what a coincidence that "half" of Eastern Europe is meeting here at this random mountain so far away. Well he quickly corrected me Croatia is not Eastern Europe, haha!
Everything was perfectly friendly. This is the real world. Not the bitter comments you might read here, or on other social media. Don't give in to corrupt politicians trying to win some votes by talking shit about your neighbors!
(Bonus: I met a mountain tour-guide in Slovenia who also immediately started talking about Budapest as soon as he learned I was Hungarian. I asked him which places he visited: the parliament, the castle, the fisherman's bastion? He said only strip clubs but they were f***ing great :D )
they still hold a large chunk of hungarian land. the hungarians are the most heroic nation in europe. they came as a union of tribes and subdued all their enemies and survived and thrived. there are few examples in history like that where a people can achieve so much from scratch.
I ám Hungária and I ám biased for my country só I know THAT HUNGARY IS THEEE BEST NATION IN THE HISZORY OF THE MULTIVERSE
Ignore the troll above my comment. I’m a Hungarian living in the Uk and has worked with a lot of our neighbours. I only encountered one anti Hungarian but after a talk he has realised we are just people and we have a lot shared culture even tho he was 20+ years older than me he turned out to be a great guy and completely changed his views. Somehow it just feels like whatever is happening on different platforms when it comes to the fallen Hungarian kingdom and they neighbours is so much different in real life.
@@soulkrsxxx im not hate mongering. hungary has and should keep good relations with his neighbours. however, we cannot ignore that the great powers of the time have robbed hungary.
@@williamwallace-m4v The powers did indeed robbed Hungary. But so should a Romanian who was born in 1982 should feel bad? A Slovakian born in 1993 should feel bad? They didn't contribute in any way to that decision. Should a Hungarian born in the last 40 years feel bad for the mistreatment of minorities in the Austro-Hungarian empire? All that matters is what we do now and in the future. The nations of the Carpathian are a great force and there's a reason all foreign powers wanted to divide us since forever. If only we could unite and support each other... we are the people who suffered so much and came through it. We are the ones who never surrender. Romanians, Slovakians, Ukrainians, Serbians, Croatians, Slovenians, Hungarians... a hundred tragedies of history and yet here we all are. I wish we would unite again, not as a single country, but as people who share a common goal and common values.
I remember being on an international camp about a decade ago, where two participants, an Hungarian and a Romanian had an intense dislike for each other - which completely spoiled the camp.
Every night became a hostile shouting match about which past family members were massacred by each other’s countries.
I never went on another international camp, but I remember the host saying he would request that they couldn’t have people who bore grudges against other nations.
On a plus note, both men tried to out do each other on how much firewood they could chop - and between them they chopped about three cords!
so you know what is romangutan
Well hungarians had multiple genocides on romanians so now you know who was the actual victim (the romanian).
@@flzrin The same is true for Romanians. There are only victims in war
@@flzrin Except for the leaders.
@@pto4010 he s speaking about people like u
Greetings from slovakia. We lived in harmony for most of the time. Our modern history may be little bit rough but ultimately we are similar. Let's hope for better future without hate ✌️
i always wanted a slovakian femboy..come baby
Well for most of history it was basically the country
I'm from Komarno and tbh I really only had one very negative experience with Slovaks, other than that it's mostly friendly
It’s always self interested politicians who stir up the lower class mobs to hide the real reasons for their mysery. Normal people can appreciate the diversity and beauty of our shared history. 🇭🇺
@@KobraTHFC Nobody hurts Slovaks in Hungary.
Unfortunately, Hungarians in Slovakia are not liked by many Slovaks.
I was in a ski camp in Slovakia when I was a child. in 1989. In front of a buffet, a Slovak shot a Hungarian in the head because he was upset that he spoke Hungarian. There was a case in Bratislava where two boys brutally beat a girl because she was speaking Hungarian on her phone. The Slovak state wanted to convict the girl. In a Slovak museum, a painting was thrown into the corner because it depicted a Hungarian. Hungarian tourists came once and they all photographed this painting. The museum staff did not understand what they were photographing in that painting depicting an unknown Hungarian. Well, because this man founded this museum. Slovaks simply erase their history if it has a Hungarian aspect. Shame.
Fun fact: after World war II Czechoslovakia acquired parts of Hungarian territory with an area of 65.52 km... these territories are located south of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It was joined to Czechoslovakia on October 15, 1947 on the basis of the Paris Peace Conference ,it should have been to enable the construction of the port of Bratislava on the Danube. At that time, from the national point of view, it was a predominantly national Croatian villages
Are u Slovakian?
@@slovakian_patriot yeah
In Bratislava in past living croats? really?
@@min0658 mówisz, ano ;-) A ja z Polski jestem, ale mieszkam we Francji. Szkoda, że Czechosłowacji i Jugosławii już nie ma. Wy byliście pierwszymi krajami w celu jedności Słowian.
"Bratislava" was hungarian capital for longer time than for slovakia
Interesting video topic to cover. Like Poland, Hungary seems to have had very bad luck throughout history! But the fact they survived their harsh history is amazing, as so many nations and empires vanish instead.
Hungary had a lot of bad luck: 4 million Transylvanian Romanian slaves decided to secede and unite with Romania, despite the fact that the wise "superior race" 25% Hungarian minority did not agree with that. Ahhh, such injustice! Why Romanians don't understand that DEMOCRACY NOT GOOD! Only listen to "superior races". That is good!
The history of Poland was very similar to the history of Hungary, because the elite layer came from roughly the same Scythian - Sarmatian - Hun elite layer, while the Hungarians were mainly Scythian Huns, while the Poles were mainly Sarmatian. And there is evidence that these elite military tribes kept in touch with each other, because, for example, Hungarian kings or kings' sons often fled to Poland, such as the sons of Vazul as early as the time of the first Hungarian King, Saint Stephen.
But the Poles also became Catholics when St. Stephen was still young, at roughly the same time as the Hungarians, the Poles also received authorization for a European Catholic kingdom from the Pope! Then there are also a lot of parallels, that these were the two great kingdoms in Europe that opposed the Mongol invasion very hard, and today there are clear data that it is thanks to the Poles and Hungarians that the Mongol-Tatars did not reach Western Europe! The interests of the two peoples and kingdoms began to diverge with the Ottoman conquests, mainly because the Turks attacked the north half from the south, and thus Hungary was really the only thing in their way, after the Balkan states all failed and even the southern parts of Italy were lost under the Ottoman siege.
At that time, the Poles were occupied by conflicts with the Eastern Slavs and Tatars,, but the invasion of the Ottomans did not affect Poland much, while Hungary bled in the southern and eastern areas for more than three hundred years and lost millions of people, until then the Poles were not very involved in these wars. Of course, there was a Hungarian prince from Transylvania, István Báthory, who was chosen by the Poles as their king and who seems to have been quite successful as a Polish king, but he could not even persuade the Polish lords to join the war against the Ottomans. After the expulsion of the Ottomans from Hungary, the Poles and the Hungarians found each other again, because the Habsburgs took over the place of the Ottomans, who also claimed the territories of the Poles and the Hungarians! But the problem was that while the Thökölys, Rákóczis, and Wesselényis always kept Hungarian interests in mind and therefore waged bloody battles against the Habsburgs even with the help of the Poles, some of the Hungarian lords all tried to come to terms with the Habsburgs. And these lords and their successors brought Hungary into that union with the Austrians, from which Hungary and the Hungarian people could only come out as losers at the end of the First World War, and brought all the devastation and loss of territory to the country that the Hungarian people did not deserve!
This country did not vanish, because of Christianity. God helped us through history since Stephen declared us as a Christian kingdom around year 1000.
the difference is that hungarians weren't in fact european at all but asian. They should be happy that they still have a country to live in, taken that they only made bad moves in recent history
@@gigikontra7023 Why don't you go back to sotuhern Balkans, from where your late.-nomad Vlach ancestors migrated to modern territory of Romania in the 13th century.
Support to hungary, our brothers from personal union 🇭🇷🇭🇺✝️🔥👑
Whatever politicians do we always be brothers
Thanks, It feels good to hear It from a Croatian.
We will take back TRANSYLVANIA!!!! #OrbanHero #RomaniaTraitor
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@@larochejaquelein3680 gesta hungarorum, chapter 26
This is your (yet) highest quality video. The sources are spot on and you used a couple of hungarian maps. Really well done. Thank you.
As a Romanian living in France I like to meet Hungarians, they always prove to be friendly and happy to help, my best friend in a Hungarian from Budapest. At a government level Hungary helped and is helping Romania; they supported us to join the EU and are in top 5 of our economic partners. Hungarians in the big cities of Transylvania like Cluj, Brasov and Oradea are cool and friendly. I am just tired to read hateful youtube comments from the Hungarians in the small mountain villages inside Romania. And yes, I am happy that people talk about the history of central and eastern Europe because otherwise it minimizes the importance of our history and cultures. For example it was very hard for me to find a video about Trianon in French, people simply don't care about the East.
salutari de la Ciuc 👋
@@zsomborbajko5265 Cat timp nu va mai plangeti ca traiti in Romania, si veti accepta odata pentru totdeauna ca Transilvania VA FI a Romaniei, noi va vom respecta, atat de putin va cerem.. (si aici nu ma refer neaparat la tine, care ai comentat, ci la maghiarii care traiesc in tara noastra/in ungaria si tot viseaza la "ungaria mare")
Buna ziua. Si au am un intrebare. Voi de ce nu puteti sa acceptati, ca noi suntem magharii? Suntem in romania asta este... dar de ce faceti prostia, ca cine nu are un mare steag românesc pe casa lui trebuie sa fuge acasa la budapesta? Eu asta nu am inteles in viata mea, ca oke, nu stiu bine in limba romana, nu vorbesc perfect, dar si eu platesc impozitul, si incerc sa vorbesc cu limba romana cum stiu, dar zi de zi am primit ca: "dute inapoi la budapesta (si aicia vine ceva urat :) ).
@@Aazar4th Eu sunt impresionat cat de bine vorbiti limba romana. Cred ca ar trebui date mai multe amenzi huliganilor care transmit mesaje de ura, de exemplu suporterilor de fotbal care spun rele despre maghiari. Secuii au luptat alaturi de romani impotriva invadatorilor turci in cateva batalii, de exemplu.
@@makavelisoft I had to use Google Translate so I might not get exactly what you said, but your comment does not make any sense to me. Romanians were the ones that dreamt of "Great Romania" in the first place and guess what, they even made it happen. What does respect have to do with the other one's wishes ("dreams" if you like)? Do you really expect Hungarians dreaming of being (or even becoming) part of Romania? We are Hungarians, obviously, we want to live in the same country with our brothers like we did before. The fact that it's impossible is another story. It's absolutely our business whether we (or anyone, for that matter) like to live in Romania or not.
8:20 It's actually the Principality of Transylvania, not Upper Hungary. The last sovereign monarch of Hungary, King John Szapolyai I. fled to Transylvania, estabilishing the Kingdom of Eastern Hungary. His son could've maintained that title, but decided not to, so he became the first voivode of Transylvania instead. Upper Hungary later gained 'independence', and was ruled by a different prince, than that of Transylvania's. Both had de-facto independencd, but were Ottoman vassals.
YES! Finally, somebody from hungary that recognizes the fact that Transilvania, for hundreds of years was an Ottoman vassal, an autonomous region after, and only in recent years, before ww1, was it integrated in the austrian empire (later austro-hungarian) but by then it had a romanian majority, that's why we got it and still have it, even though we lost ww2.
@@makavelisoft he is the first, but he read a lot of history, he love the history and he dont like to lie🙂
@@makavelisoft Its something that every Hungarian knows. This era is a large material in Hungarian elementary school. Later it is teached in more detail in middle school.
He didn't establish Eastern Hungary, that's a title used by modern Historians to distinguish the realm of King Zapolya and his sons realm John Sigismund Zapolya. What we call today Eastern Hungary was still Kingdom of Hungary until 1570. The Habsburgs ruled something called Royal Hungary which Ferdinand and Maximilian wanted to unite with "Eastern Hungary" but after John the First died, his son John Sigismund Zapolya abandoned his title of Elected King of Hungary and wasn't crowned with the Holy Crown of Hungary but Maximilian II was Crowned with it as the King of Royal Hungary. So after the Treaty of Spreyer marked a new Semi-independent Principality which would be Transylvania.
Could have mentioned that hungary and croatia were in personal union. It was not hungarian territory, just 2 kingdoms ruled by the same king
Yeah but this was just in the late 19 th century and early 20th.
@@markus38402 nope, it was in 1101
@@markus38402 until then croatia was independent kingdom
@@mvg92 what? Is this a joke?
@@mvg92 have you not seen this video?
Anyone else think the Treaty of Trianon was a bit harsh on Hungary? I mean they didn't wanna join WW1, they were forced to.
Also if any Hungarians are watching and seeing this comment, love from the US 🇺🇲❤️🇭🇺
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@༒ PERSEUS ༒ I meant if any people who are currently living in Hungary were watching and reading the comment. Also I'm not big on WW1 history so excuse that.
@@Drakrau_TheDerg a "small but lod minority", mostly right-wing extremists think it was totally unjust and should be revisioned. The majority is on the side of "yes, it was erring on the side of our current neighbors, but cannot be considered illogical if you wanted to give each nation its own country" (still, the quite extreme thought of the former Yugoslavia questions this intention a bit)
imo the pre- and during ww2 borders (some variants of 1938-1941) have correlated the most to the then-actual distribution of nations, but as 100 years since Trianon treaty and 80 since ww2, there's really nothing to reconsider now. Virtually noone alive has been personally affected by border changes, and no sensible grandparent would tell its grandchildren to fight and risk their lives for the territories my country once had, 'in the days when i was your age. Now go and shoot your neighbor'.
There are no irreconcilable differences between our and our neighbours cultural backgrounds, also the borders are quite easy to cross (at least within EU/Schengen area they are virtually nonexistent), and speaking in general, minorities on any side of the borders are treated in an adequately tolerable way (of course, with less or more room for improvement on both political and individual levels).
In general, EU seems as the local guarantee for long term peace, byforcing fair minority policies, having open borders, being able to relocate to anywhere, common currency (maybe later...), and also a strong economical interdependence (or a common dependence on german car industry).
Only a generally accepted common language is what i think we truly miss, as only a relatively low share of population speak even a little English in the CEu region (compared to other eu regions with the exception of France :D)
is it a question that the treaty was a bit harsh? what would you say if your country were 1/3 part of it, and even 100 years later your nation were oppressed by the winners? just because Austria wanted a war. are you foreigners totally ignorant?
@timeanagy8495 I just meant that did anyone else think it was harsh.. And I may be a dumb American, but I know enough about history to agree with the Hungarians that the Treaty of Trianon was harsh on Hungary.
The Principality of Upper Hungary was only a short lived renegade state rebbelling against royal Habsburg rule supported by the Ottomans.
While the Principality of Transylvania, sometimes refered to as Eastern Hungary in english sources became a stable Ottoman vassal, a rival of royal Hungary. Transylvania's rule extended into eastern Hungary and was ruled by a protestant Hungarian elite.
Hungary was conquered by a hassock?
Transilvania îs Romania, IT isnt east Hungary+ Romania used to own hungarian land
@@narutouusi-maki8483 anime kid
@@OrthodoxCrusader83 Your nationalistic fever doesn't change the fact that I was simply pointing out that some english sources refer to The Principality of Transylvania as The Kingdom of Eastern Hungary.
@@BrotherCane What?
I didn't even mention Trianon, are you even responding to me or to the video?
Hungary and Croatia had the same king because wife of last Croatian King was Hungarian and the nobles accepted that king "Pacta Conventa" but in reallity Croatia always had its own parliament and autonomy.
In Hungary we learn the same thing you say, so thats true
it is called personal union....as we were taught, we created a union, wich worked for hundreds of years....but I am not afraid of that the European Union would have such a long life
We will take back TRANSYLVANIA!!!! #OrbanHero #RomaniaTraitor
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no, it was not just the personal union not just the king was the common. the throne and the law too.
The Croatian-Hungarian Coalition was formed in the 13th century because by those times the croatians had got that much fed up from the decades(if not centuries) long attacks from the venetians that they asked us to protect them with Croatia joining our kingdom! 😉
For what it's worth, in Persian Hungary is called Majjarestan (Land of Majjars, which may be a different way of saying land of Magyars).
Hungary is an interesting country. I would very much like to visit that country.
Come mate, its really beatiful, and we are very friendly people. You would enjoy it :)
@@DelaAjka My desire to visit has only grown. Many greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷🇭🇺
In Magyarország last week i ate the biggest portion of meat. One portions - four big peace of meat and one egg for sure 😁. It was in Kecskemét.
@@pedrocavalcante5822 come visit transylvania too it was hungarian land for 1000 years before romania got on their knees in front of france
@@zoltan6451 I hate Rom*nians 🤮
I watch every one of your videos for about 2 years, I really enjoy them, thank you for making a Hungary related one! Cheers (or Egészségedre ) from Hungary!
If I remember correctly from history lessons Northern Hungary was fully independent and was seeking polish support to push back both the ottomans and the habsburgs. Transylvania offered itself to be a vassal state, mostly keeping autonomy but the sultan responded to unwanted laws by raiding southern cities/villages. Western hungary was as you mentioned ruled by habsburgs. There was a war that later got most of Northern Hungary to the habsburgs. Transylvania was the naughtiest of them all by offering the habsburgs rule over the country while still paying taxes to the ottomans and they did that at least 3 times.
Transilvania nu s-a oferit niciodata ca stat vasal. A fost ocupata cu Forta de catre imepriul Austro - Ungar. Tanand cont de istoria Roamaniei Dacii au fost pe aceste meleaguri cu 5000 de Ani inainte ca poporul Ungar sa se aseze in campia panonica.
The Principality of Transylvania was the one who seeked polish support, even managed to capture the polish crown. Upper Hungary was a rebellion/rogue state
Because I know this will come up here: I do not understand how you can find personal comfort in the size of yout country, Hungarians you can be proud of your lovely culture, your unique language. Please don't forget that this is what makes your country great and not its borders.
❤Mágyarország from Germany
Damn I definetly misspelled that
Yes, sadly after Hungary was defeated by the ottomans and millions killed/population reduced by 20-40%, Hungary was never the same. Some people still to this day have hard time accepting that once the population was 70% hun and 30% neighboured nation is now 10%hun And 90% other and reducing. People still hope that if we would take back those lands we could recover the traditions or start over after the 1500s. But it's just not possible and we don't want to hurt people there today for our history.
Well said Thank you! You have to live for the future not in the past!
@@heb-agar6119 The painting titled The Arrival of the Hungarians is the largest Hungarian work of art to date. It shows the arrival of the Hungarians to their new homeland: the moment when, under the leadership of Arpad, the Hungarian tribes cross the border of the Carpathian Basin in the Verecka Gorge. The circular painting was originally exhibited in Budapest, and later transferred to Opusztaszer, today's National Memorial Historic Park. So, this painting clearly shows that Hungarians came in a populated region and that they were brutal invaders, who burned settlements, looted, killed and enslaved the population they found. Hungarians should remember that before this ratio between Hungarians and neighbors of 70-30, there was a different situation, where there were many more "neighbors" and there were no Hungarians at all.
@@sofijajovanovic2404 We try to condemn the actions of ppl living in the past, from our point of view, in modern times, where morality has a meaning. Back in the days there was no morality in any nation. You Killed, you Lived, you could not kill, you were dead and disappeared. Any nation present on the face of the earth today, are those who Killed the Most. Dont try to paint them as "bad people" for playing the game everyone played back then. Taking over lands, pushing out nations from their homeland was the name of the game and those who could not do it were enslaved or deleted. "Brutal invaders" were the survivors back then, not brutal invades. Just to give you a context on how to comprehend the actions of the ppl in those times. They didnt killed just for the fun of it, they had to, to survive. Its the same feeling for what you wake up in the morning and go to work, to provide for your family and secure their safety, just the methods and the times changed.
@@KonradTamas If this mental construct will make you happy, to feel more comfortable as a Hungarian, go ahead. But it is not true that we were all the same - immoral. In the eyes of a thief, everyone else is a thief.
Love Hungary from Poland 🇵🇱❤️🇭🇺
You should have explained how Hungary expanded in the 12t century. Like this it seems like it conquered Croatia rather than coming into union with Croat nobles.
Yes but Croats hardly had any rule over the country, later being in union only on paper.
@@mdza Yeah only later because of oppression. But in the start were on the same footing.
Yes but the most unions in histroy is controlled by one side never really even
@@treple8310 I quess it't true in most cases but still he could have explained.
Yeah the Hungarians only gained Croatia cause many of the Croatian nobles saw the Hungarian King’s claim as legitimate and supported him , the kingdoms were brought together as a union.
Great video! My father is half Hungarian and half Korean. The Hungarian side is actually harder to explain to other people without having to go all the way back to my great grandfather. I don't personally know a lot of Hungarians here in NJ, but I learned that the "hub" here during WWII was in Trenton, NJ exactly where my great grandfather escaped to. My last name is often mistaken for being German or Romanian. My father did some research of his grandfather's roots and we're from a little place called Gara in southern Hungary.
Gara means train station in Romanian... Which train station was he from? Did he have Romanian slaves? That must've been nice
@Therapist servanta are paid, slaves are not
Fun fact: Up to this day you can see bumper stickers on cars in Hungary depicting the pre-1920 map aka the so called Great Hungary. You can also find t-shirts, wall clocks and other swag with that map. Today it's a bit similar symbol to the confederate flag in the US, meaning it's highly contraversial and represents certain political affiliation.
@Szilárd Takács really? don t you say now....
@Szilárd Takács Yes, all all neighbors lie 😂 the reality is that the Austrians maintained order in the monarchy until 1867... after the Austro-Hungarian settlement of 1867, Magyarization began and you wanted to fulfill your dream called Great Hungary (in territories where Hungarians did not even make up 50% of the population)... so don't be surprised that at the first opportunity (World War 1 was lost) everyone gave up on your great Hungary... I have nothing against Hungarians, I also admire Orban and his geopolitical views, but stop crying for something that happened 100 years ago and it wasn't even yours...
@Szilárd Takács Just that there is no evidence in Hungarian sources or any other sources of Romanians immigrating into your territory. Early Hungarian chronicles constantly depict Romanians as the main actors in their struggle for control of Transylvania.
In the US, we laugh at those people. Who would celebrate being completely destroyed and unconditionally surrender? The Natives fought harder.
Hungary in the 17th century was divided into four pieces. Royal Monarchy belonging to the Habsburgs, the middle part under Ottoman control, Thököly’s short-lived state from 1682 which was a rebel and vassal state of the kuruc people, and Transylvania which was a vassal state as well but had quite wide range of autonomy.
And I have to correct your mistake: after 1918 Yugoslavia did not exist, it run under the name of Serb-Croat-Slovene Kingdom. Yugoslavia was established in 1929.
Despite the Volatile history, today, most countries bordering Hungary retain cordial relations. Slovakia, Austria, and Croatia are the ones I know for sure have let bygones be bygones, and I am hoping that our current long held peace is maintained.
Only on the surface bro! We have to carry on with our lives. But I do not forget what happened and by who. So if you ever see a drunk Hungarian, do not bring up this topic, for your own safety.
@@Gil-games i don't care, even when I'm drunk. Time to move on.
Actually, if we lool at the governments, Hungary has good relationship with everyone except for Ukraine. There are in fact some conflicts sometimes, but that is always just hysteria from the countries that border Hungary. No offense but this is truth. There are always some Hungarophobic politicians who create conflicts on purpose
@@dddaddy I don't sorrow it every day. But in back of my mind it pains me that part of history
@@bazsamester I can assure you Hungary has good relationships with nobody but Russia. Go to Romania and ask "what do you think about hungarians"... see what you get.
Louis the Great was also King of Poland and Duke of Ruthenia (Galicia) from 1370.
One of your best videos so far :) very professional 💪🏻 thank you!
Thank you! I had the help of a great video editor for this one
About Upper Hungary: It's a bit complicated, so I had to dig in, and here's what I found: The leader of the Principality of Upper Hungary was Thököly Imre, who lost his family and most of its land to the Habsburg, which, as you said, ruled Royal Hungary, because they thought, that his father was in a plot against the Habsburgs. He collected all the people in Transylvania and Royal Hungary, who hated the Habsburg rule (they're called "bujdosók" in Hungarian, later "kurucok"), and created a small army. He was supported by the Ottomans of course because they had the same enemy. He was able to conquer quite a land for himself, and in 1682, the Ottomans crowned him as king of Hungary, and thus Upper Hungary was born, as an Osman vassal state. It didn't last long though, because in 1685 the Habsburgs finally have beaten the Ottomans, recapturing Buda in 1686, and he lost his territory. He tried multiple times to get back his land but failed, and in 1690 he became the leader of Transylvania, but for one month.
It was more simple. Thököly, Rakoczi and others was simply traitors. They sell his coutry to Otomans.
They knew his father was innocent but they needes the money to wage their wara
@@balazstoth4813 Thank you, I forgot to mention that.
And did you not see anywhere in the archival data that the Habsburgs ruled northern and western Hungary as the legal successors of the Hungarian kings? Because the territories of the medieval Hungarian kingdom could not have been owned without the consent of the great Hungarian lords, such as the very rich Esterházys! It is everywhere in the archival data that the remaining Hungarian kingdom was under the Habsburg rulers and not under Austria or any other name! But your anti-Hungarian historians don't teach you that, do they?
@@szakaattila7899 Hi, I never stated, that anything you say wouldn't be true. Yes, indeed the Habsburgs ruled the northern and western parts of Hungary (here called Royal Hungary), from the coronation of Ferdinand I., until the Treaty of Karlowitz (after that the whole country). I just don't understand the aggressive tone.
Btw I am a Hungarian as well. Have a good day!
Im so happy u did Hungary 🇵🇱 ❤️ 🇭🇺 ❤️ 🇦🇹
Hungary is gay
My Mother and I were born in Hungary. My parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc were hungarian. My grandma' was born in Hungary, now Slovakia. My father in Erdély=Transylvania, now Romania. As I go back my family tree, we came from (now) Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria.
If someone asks me where I'm from, i usually say: from Europe. Not easy to explain....
I am (italian-)hungarian, and I have been travelled all over what we could call "old/big" hungary, and most of the time, it didn't feel hungarian. The people there did not speak hungarian, nor considered themselves to be hungarian. Different culture, lifestyle and mindset was what awaited me in the locals. The only big exception where I felt like I was in Hungary was when I was traveling through Romania's Harghita, Covasna and Mureş counties. Basically modern day Székely-land. And parts of Vojvodina. Most of the other places were never really inhabited by hungarians, nor influenced by them.
In hungary you see many people praising "old-hungary", most of the time they put stickers on their cars which resemble it.
But... I don't quite get it...
A great example is my stepfather, who is very much nationalistic (and has very... "interesting"... far-right views). Who, when I was younger, used to tell me that millions of hungarians were trapped outside of hungary when the treaty happened. Saying that all lost territories were inhabited 100% by hungarians, he is not the only one who I've heard this from. But this is not really true... as where hungarians actually lived has a similar territory-shape to as of modern day hungary (except for that exclave in Transylvania). I'm not sure whether if the people are just uneducated... or ignorant.
I'm a bit sad. Because this obviously comes with hate towards other ethnicities (I tend to often hear my father call romanians "dirty gypsies", or basically cuss at any other ethnicity that is not hungarian, he also tends to abuse me and my mother for being half-italian) and this thing passes on from generation to generation. The majority of the time the aggression comes from hungarians. Which really saddens me honestly. Because I have had many friends from all over the world... and it is really not history, nor their government which defines them (supposing they can think freely, lol)
Wow...what a stepfather..
Yeah my hungarian grand grand father had to fight for romania in second World war in odessa Was shot two times fighting for romanians as he was from bottom side of transylvania while my romanian grand grand father didnt fought in the war the región was populated by hungarians but were used to fight wars, my hungarian father in communism he worked for the government and was sent to all sides of romania same as other hungarians diversed everywhere , you dont see that infuriating ?
Hungarian Blood is a warrior blood
@@zoltan6451 Nyugodtan írhatod magyarul is. Mert ezt kicsit nehezen értem...
@@zoltan6451 I don't quite agree... I don't believe someones behaviour is influenced by their heritage. All humans are humans. They all have the same blood. They all think according to how others think around them. Maybe you mean "blood" as mentality... in which case... yes. Hungarians could be looked at as "warriors". But yet... why do we need to fight? Why do we need to be stronger and more superior than others? Why can't we just... work along...? And co-exist, if you know what I mean.
Im hungarian and very thank u for this vid.u show how big was our history
Your surname shows just how many "Hungerians" are assimilated local people and not ethnic magyars. Sad thing to look at :(
My grand parents were forced to pray in magyar language. This country was prison of natios.
@@Hlava52 Its sad,but unfortunately it was rather common at that time.
I just found out from the comment section that God is actually hungarian.. his name is Gyozo-Jesus and he was born in Budapest. Also, Cristopher Columbus was hungarian too. The original name of America was Orban-vasarhely, but some hungarophobe changed it. The more you know...
also found out that dacian theory is a fairytale made to claim land wich is not rightfully romanian the more you know about vlach history and the language romania used before the year 1800... also my hungarian grand grand father had to fight for romania in odessa was shot two times while romanian grand grand father didnt fight in world war two one of the reasons why many hungarians are missing from transylvania
abel nicolae - of course God is Hungarian. Hungarians hate Jews, so therefore, God would be considered Hungarian.
Tell me you're romanian without telling me you're romanian
@@ItalMiser117 it was a joke… i think 😅
No, only Texas is Orbanfalva : )
9:13
You forgot about the poles.
Polish husars rescued Austria at the Battle of Vienna
This is true!
@@General.Knowledge and in the 13th century hungary and poland had a union under the second anjou king you forgor. it was a big deal at the time, thats what the bases of V4 today...or what will be left of it :(
I was just watching a video about Hungary…. And then the Winged Hussars arrived!
Fun Fact the winged hussars were inspired by the black army
I like to see, to many people intrest to the Hungarian history, and the territorial, appriciate from Hungary :D
Great video, I really appreciate the fact that you've spared some time to make a video about my beloved homeland, Hungary.
Szebb jövőt!
Very nice timeline very easy to follow up and I have to say it is very accurate! One of the best presentation of Hungarian History highlighting the milestones and mayor affect but with no unnecessary or foolish misunderstandings! Greetings from Hungary :) ! ! !
THIS IS AN INSANELY GOOD VIDEO!!! I love the presentation of it - its so easy to understand! Its also very interesting. This is so cool!
Thank you for taking the time to talk about this topic. ☺️
Ah yes, the famous "Honfoglalas" depicted in AOE II DE homologous scenario, which explains a bit about the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian basis.
Great content mate!
Ah yes, a man of culture!
This line of video is incredibly interesting! Would love to see one for every country in the world, haha
I did one on Germany already too! I want to make more as well, any suggestions for the next one?
@@General.Knowledge could you do romania ? And how their language changed from the year 1800 from church slavonic to french? And the lies of dacian theory?
@@General.Knowledge please can you make morrocan territorial evolution
Denmark might be interesting.
Africa should shine
Thank you for sharing our history. Maybe as many nations as many oppinions, but if the Hungarian Kingdom had been so terrible, we wouldn't be able to talk about the successor states today...
Positioning of a few map overlays are inaccurate - sometimes to a misleading extent. At 13:39, this is pretty noticeable. The part, where Bács-Bodrog is written (and the city of Arad, Nagyvárad, Szatmárnémeti, Kassa), does not belong currently to Hungary just to note a few. Bigger rivers and short names of bigger cities could have given a clue about where the white overlay should have been positioned.
He said rightfully I think
"Are rightfully Hungarian"
Thank you so much!! A huge greets from Hungary!
Plus informations: After the Treaty of Trianon, there were still several border changes with some little villages, because there were cases when the borders weren't actually there where they supposed to be according to treaty. And also there was the case of Sopron (a big city nowadays) where they held a referendum about which country they want to be with, and they joined Hungary against Austria.
Another plus information: After WW2, Hungary didn't get the exact same borders as it had before the war, 3 more villages were also taken away from then.
Btw it's a really great video, unfortunately in this topic there are a lot of misinformations, especially when the nations that were included in Trianon tell the story. But this video was great and there weren't any big lies. There were things that should have been said but weren't, but still great video
Which country got these 3 villages
Actually... what you consider "lies" are surely national orban-istic propaganda they feed you at school when you are young.
@@breaderikthegreat3224 Slovakia, they are a part of Bratislava now
Yeah the Sporon/Ödenburg case is interesting, because the city and its surrounding Villages were 80% German speaking, but since Austria wasn't allowed to send their own people overwatching the vote,only the Hungarians were and so most ethnic Germans weren't allowed to vote and with that ended up with a yes for Hungary
@@breaderikthegreat3224 the Czechoslovaks wanted 5 villages, they got 3 of them. Oroszvár, Horvátjárfalu and Dunacsún were ceded to Czechoslovakia
A couple of corrections.
The partition of Hungary after the Battle of Mohács was a little different. It fell into the Turkish occupied part, Royal Hungary and the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (not Upper Hungary which was only a very short lived creation) that later became the Principality of Transylvania. Upper Hungary was in fact split between Royal Hungary and Transylvania
The other point: the encircled territory that you refer to as Hungarian majority in 1918 is actually way bigger (+ca. 20-25%) than Hungary is today.
The 3rd one: the territorial gains before and during WW2 are nowhere near to the size of Hungary before WW1.
This guy’s history teaching is better than my history teacher’s
jesus christ is your education system on the brink of collapse or something?
@@Solaxe it id for him
I was expecting to see hungarians and romanians arguing in the comments, but I am not entirely disappointed, now there are Slovakians arguing with Hungarians. :D
The production quality in this video is amazing!
Great thanks and greetings from Hungary! Love your channel.
Cool video. Greetings from Hungary
correct video. Greatings from Hungary!
Amazing editing style! I love the visual look of the video
Congrats. Always learning with this channel.
As a Slovak, I do not have problems with Hungarians. I just don’t like the ultranationalists (sometimes lot of them have Slovak/Slavic surnames, which are one of the most common i Hungary - Tóth = Slovak, Kovács = Kováč, Molnár = Mlynár, Takács = Tkáč etc.), which spread a lot of hate against Slovaks. Our ancestors lived pretty well together for hundreds of years, but yes, the last 80 years of Kingdom of Hungary had very bad effect on Slovaks 😔 🇸🇰🇭🇺
yeah if we were a bit smart we would set our differences asside and grow bigger to not beeing pushed arround we are weak having little piece of land and beeing separated greeting from a transylvanian
You are right. There is no place in world that is known to us and has only one type of people or etnicity. People were mixing with others ever since we left caves. So, in that case, there is not anyone who can say he is only this or that. In Central Europe we are all connected and mixed together. There is not much difference in people living in Slovakia or in Hungary. Yes, sure, we can have different characteristics, different personalities and we do have slightly different mentality and culture, not to mention language, but in the end, we are basically the same. You may disagree, you may object and essentially, the difference is only in what side of the border you were born and how your ancestors adapted to their reality.
@@golyno very well said my friend
I agree with you, idiotic ultranationalists ruin everything. I do hope that one day we can let bygones be bygones and you can forgive us for the magyarization.
I do have to point out that a lot of Hungarian surnames are actually the names of jobs and the examples you bring are all that (with the exception of Tóth). Kovács means blacksmith, molnár means miller and takács means weaver.
" I do not have problems with Hungarians. I just don’t like the ultranationalists " I think all of us can relate.
Stopped watching somewhere in the middle of intro ad. Was very interesting, thank you
Great video and historical presentation. Thanx. As time goes by I hope that our relationship with all of our neighbours around us will be bit by bit better and friendlier every year (especially within the EU). Greetings from Hungary. ;-)
As a proud bearer of Hungarian ancestry I really like that historians, anthropologists and linguists give some love to one of the most ancient states in Europe.
It's one of the newest bro... Literally 20th century. 1918 isn't ancient. 1867 if you're counting from when Hungary became its own kingdom within Austria, but it's hard to make a case that this was the same state since it became a democratic republic when it finally became its own state after WW1.
@@jensboettiger5286 Learn some history my friend.Hungary is actually more than 1000 years old.That is a fact.
@@jensboettiger5286 sure buddy, here have some ice cream 🍨
Hungarian ancestry with slavic surname 🤣
@@romanvlach5293 yes, is a common surname across the area. Mine is spelled Kovács and is the 4th most common in Hungary. I am aware of the cultural and ethnical mix Magyars had with the local inhabitants.
You must also add that Hungarians do not originated from Europe, they invade Europe from Urals, Western Siberia, and occupied present and also past teritories of Hungaria. Hungarians are actually a mixture of Asian Ugric (a Siberian population in Russia) and Turks. Perhaps this history can explain present day Hungarians afinity to autocracy and communism and also the tight connection with Russia.
We have been with germany for a loong long time also many of us support russia now because they are more decent and Christian than west 🚮
Hungarians came from the Urals. Also suggesting that politics has to do with something genetical is somethnig that the nonoGermans did last time.
All life and all people came from afrika thousands of years ago. As a hungarian i say we're all humans and fuck the borders. We have to respect each other regardless of religion or ethnic differences. Yes, we lost a bunch of territories. Sad, move on. If the romanians or slovakians were given rights back than and let them speak their own language, wasn't forced to speak hungarian, maybe they didn't wanted to be separated from the hungarians...
This hatred must stop. Our nations lived so long time together and next to each other, it would be a miracle not to mix with each other. In Hungary, and i think in the rest of europe too, hard to find a person who is not a mixture of some other nation as well than his own nationality.
There's a small error in the thumbnail image. The Carpathian Ruthenia territory ceded to Hungary from Slovakia went to the USSR after WW2 and remains with Ukraine in 2022.
The Hungarian word árpa was borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries), from Proto-Turkic *arpa.[5][6][4] The Hungarians cohabited for centuries with Turkic people, which accounts for over 10% word roots in modern Hungarian being Turkic. In Hungarian, most pastoral terms are Turkic in origin, and agricultural terms are 50% r-Turkic. Many Hungarian names, and also animal and plant names,[7] are of Turkic origin, and the majority of tribe names were of Turkic origin.[8]Turkic is, along with Uralic, German and Slavic, one of the four languages that have the greatest percentage of word roots in the Hungarian language. However, the Magyars are not a Turkic people, though the Turks made a genetic and linguistic contribution.[9][10]
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Hungarians a finno ugoric folk.
They are a part of the Uralic group, including the Finns, Estonians, Bulgarians and more, but the uralic group is connected to the altaic tree, which turkic is a part of, the Ural altaic language tree consists of uralic, turkic, japonic and mongolic language groups, but almost all of them are connected to the huns and the turan idea, love to Hungary from Turkey 🇹🇷❤🇭🇺
@@KartvelArca , hm, In my opinion Ithil (Volga) Bulgaria was a Turkish state.
They also won with the turks because of Polish soldiers and the winged hussars
Yes, it was one of the most epic moments in history as well. We are proud to be brothers with you my dear lengyel friend. :)
I love the mapping style!
Thanks bro. You are finally made it!
The balkans are really looked over throughout history. I won't say that modern Europe was shaped by the Balkans, but realize if the ottomans went through us, modern history would be very, very different
That was a really good video! I loved how you presented the hungarian history!
Greetings from Hungary 🇭🇺
Praise Hungary and Orban from 🇺🇸
Carpatian ruthenia is Ukrainian in the modern day, might be an idea to edit that thumbnail
Nope. Carpathian Ruthenia belonged to Czechoslovakia until 1945.
@@bence_bagosi the thumbnail has 2022 written on it.
@@martonreisch6582 Well, that's truly a bit of mistake. I think this is bc he put the 1920 picture of the Treaty of Trianon and forgot about it.
This is true! I used the Trianon map for the thumbnail but then added 2022 as the date, my mistake!
@@General.Knowledge hah, no worries it’s fine. I enjoyed the video anyways. Interesting video idea I would like to see more of it
I'm from Hungary. And I learned this from history.
Upper Hungary was part of the Austrian empire and Transilvania was a semi-vassal of the Turks.
Matthias Corvinus is an attached name. He was Hunyadi Mátyás (family and first name respectively)
Attached name lol... It was his "international" name, since in his time, Latin was still lingua franca. Nobody outside of your country would call him Hunyadi Mátyás.
His name was Matei Corvin
@@raul88.88 lol
@@abelnicolaebaritone i agree
@@raul88.88 yeah what is the name of Gyulafehérvár in romanian its just translations mate the guy was hungarian , vlad the impaler maybe was romanian and hungarian maybe .
Bro, you forgot the Hungarian-Polish commonwealth
Great video, but I'm suprised that you didn't mention that The Kingdom of Croatia was in a personal union with The Hungarian Kingdom for 800 years
And a question for General Knowledge: Why Hungary?
I am happy for the video as a hungarian, but confused due to Hungaries irrelevancy compared to UK, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey.
Perhaps because Hungarians (much like us Finns and our brothers in the south, Estonians) represent a culturally, linguistically and historically distinct group of people in Europe. I don't think Hungary is irrelevant. Even we learned in history class how powerful Hungary and the Austro-Hungarian empire was long ago.
It is simple: too much content about those countries history so variety is well received nowadays ;)
Propaganda!
@@predacorneliu Bruh this is a video from an OUTSIDE SOURCE, he's neither hungarian nor romanian, at least to my knowledge. He just made a video from historic sources.
@@Kornelios05 Yes, of course!🤣🤣🤣
Dude, you're childish and naiv.
Thank you for making this video 🇭🇺
croatia and bosnia seem to fit for a future video
At 12:13 when you mention Slovakia. Slovakia was not annexed by Germany. They declared independence on March 15 1939 as a fascist state under the „protection” of German Reich. Just to correct a teeny tiny flaw.
Otherwise amazing video my friend! Keep up the good work ;)
The funny thing is, Hungary lost 75% of his territory because of a war which the Austrians wanted, and the Hungarians fought politically against declaring the war, but they had no chance against the majority of Austrian politicans.
Friend, Hungary lost territory not for the war but because it didn't belong to them, it belonged to the people who made up the majority population. War or not, self-determination could not have been stopped 🤗
@@0NG4RN as a Romanian myself, I totally understand the spiritual loss of Hungarians when they say they lost 4 million Transylvanian Romanian slaves. It used to be so nice back then! Romanians were forbidden to live in the cities, they had to work on Hungarian plantations, and Hungarian MINORITY of 25% could rule everything (all administrative papers were in Hungarian, Romanians had ZERO political representation) and thus the "superior race" could engage in spiritually superior activities such as parties, drinking cocktails and going to the theatre. Oh, and cutting down all the forests to get rich! Yeah, it used to be so nice!
@@bitterblue8115 That's why 3 millions of hungarians get out in a foreign country in a day, without leaving their houses, after a very-very bad decicion made, after WW1. :o
@@gigikontra7023 Oh so just what you are doing with Székelyföld now? The irony.
@@pr0gn0sis65 disingenuous comment : Hungarians of Romania have 15% of the ministers in the government in Bucharest, despite only having 6% of the population. However, Romanians had ZERO political representation I. The Austro-Hungarian empire. Do you understand now?
This new style looks so good.
Thank you!
I have a question, what do Hungarians think of Serbia and Serbs and what Serbs think of Hungary and Hungarians?
I am neither Serbian nor Hungarian but I am wondering, bcs I heard that many of them don't like each other because of events in 1920-1930-1940s, I hope no one hates anybody anymore... Greetings from Bulgaria 🇧🇬❤️🇷🇸🇭🇺 👌
Being a Serb from Subotica/Szabadka the northern most city in Serbia I can say we have great relations, many of my friends are Hungarian and we don’t even talk about any nationalistic issues. My city is known as a cultural city of Hungarians, we didn’t even have any issues in 90’s Yugoslav wars. Currently politically our two countries are having best relations ever with Orban and Vucic being friends privately too. (Not a fan of Vucic though) but I like Hungary being so different from others, especially their language. All in all Szeretlek Magyarorszag ❤️
Serbs, especially in recent years have friendly relations with Hungarians in Vojvodina and like Hungary overall. We even have a recent national hero from 90s that was Hungarian and everyone from ordinary people to hard nationalists honour him.
Don't know what Hungarians in Hungary think of Serbs much tho, but I know in Vojvodina we like and value each other.
@@mdza i like to hear that i also support putin in all of this nonsense that americans and EU is causing , greetings from a transylvanian .
All true, now I’d like to hear Hungarian perspective.
as a Hungarian, I think Serbs are pretty neat
I just started a game of Hoi4 with Hungary a few seconds ago 😅
A great game!
@@General.Knowledge Yes and just now I tried invading Yugoslavia and Romania and failed.
@@UnknownTuber450 Sounds about right. 😂
2:18 somehow you forgot Slavs, that were there for 4 centuries, with Great Moravia kingdom for 2 centuries. Also the thumbnail image of video is inaccurate, in 2022 Slovakia does not have Ruthenia, that's part of Ukraine (Soviet) since the end of WWII.
He mentioned them.
The Avar khaganate settled the slavs to central europe, so, he mention the khaganate, its enough. Slavs held territory less than 70 years in the pannonian basin.
8:35 you are wrong actually, the principality of upper hungary was apart of the Habsburg Hungarian Kingdom.
the nation broke into 3 pieces: Ottoman Hungary, Transylvania and the HHK. both the HHK and Transylvania was against the Ottomans (while fighting each other too).
Fun facts: neither Czechoslovakia, Romania or Yugoslavia had referendum in 1920 when Hungary was butchered to pieces. In fact, the exercise was not more than a land grab based on our lies, which the French and the Britishtook prima facie. For example, Benes told the peace committee in Versailles that a creek in the eastern city of Sátoraljaújhely was a ‘navigable river’ suitable for a future border. Of course, he forgot to mention the committee that this way Czechoslovakia acquired an important regional railway hub in that city. The Romanians also took a lot of territories with a Hungarian majority, for example Partium (an area which now lies in Romania close to the Hungarian border). Thus they acquired a strategically important railway line between Arad and Szatmárnémeti. Of course all this was done under the lofty ideas of ‘self-determination’. Despicable lies, that the victorious French and British took hook, line and sinker.
During the ottoman invasions, hungary broke into 3 parts (and later 4 for a bit). The biggest territory was controlled by the ottomans (mainly southern hungary), to the east, there was the Transylavnian Principality, which was hungarian, but they paid the ottomans annually so the ottomans wont attack them (so basically they were an ottoman puppet state, as later on a lot of rulers we're backed up by the ottomans, not the people living there). And then there was the Hungarian kingdom, which was all of northwest and western hungary btw (this includes croatia and upper hungary and the land inbetween them). Upper hungary changed hands a few times, between the Hungarian kingdom (which was controlled by Austria) and Transylvania. Then in 1682, Hungary broke into 4 parts, as Upper Hungary broke away from the rest of the Hungarian kingdom, which wasn't controlled by the ottomans, but the leader of upper hungary was very much leaning towards the ottomans (So much so that during the freeing of hungarian territory they was on the ottoman's side, and Thököly Imre (upper hungary's leader)'s wife actually held out against Austrian forces for 2 years in a small bastion.
Love 🇭🇺 from 🇦🇱🇽🇰.... We support each-other in all history! You are very strong people with great history!!!
you only say that because the Romanian government wants to have a good relatiobship with the Serbian neighbour.
but let's be real. Romania, Greece and Albania need to stay strong against the Slavs. the Magyars can be cool as well but first they need to stop with their revisionism(13th century vlach migration from Illyria, 19th century freemasonic inventions, Hunor-Magor, Scythians etc)
I've been waiting for so long to see this QaQ
Why didnt you include the revolutions? They are very interesting and changed a lot if things.
Most of the them failed and although they are national days in hungary not much changed with them. They are mostly just to raise nationalism in the country
I'm Hungarian, and I learned more about my country's history in this 14 minute video than alltogether in the four years my elementary school taught me about it.
This video was awesome in my opinion, and I hope you make more stuff like this about other countries too.
Sorry for the bad English, I learned most of it from the internet.
well..this is sad from more points. i loved history and learned a lot in high school so i never had a problem understanding historical contexts BUT and there is the but, my classmates who weren't really keen on it have/had the same experience as you. elementary school is like a tutorial of a game..not much but then comes the worst :D
There was nothing wrong with your english
I have no idea what you're talking about. I learned most of this in history class, I live in a small town of ~3000 people
Praise Hungary and Orban from 🇺🇸 would love to visit one day
@@RoCK3rAD saying "Praise Orbán" is a good way to get most people in the country to avoid you like the plague
Oh no. You must have had a bad teacher or weren't interested in History when young. I remember a lot of this from History class. Well, I'm glad you learnt a lot.
Where something about Louis The Great as king of Poland from 1370 until his death?
Hii I love that you post at this time every week at this hour aha your vids are better than school
Keep up the great work 👍
waiting for the choas in the comment section
I am from Hungary. Actually a lot of Hungarian people still can not get over "Trianon". It is a tragic punishment after WW1 but I find overreacted that in my country some people want the old Hungarian borderlines back. Great video tho
You got it just right! Im from hungay, and im proud that many ppl know how my country worked
Currently country, but empire for most of its existence.
what is hungay?
@@RaduRadonys No, it was a Kindom for most of its' existence: Kingdom of Hungary. For only 50 years it was an empire: Austria-Hungary.
@@InfiniteDesign91 romania doesnt represent a nation represents an ocupation
@@zoltan6451 The occupation of the magyar nomad tribes which pillaged and robbed teritoriu from the indigen nation all around Panonia plains where they came in 9th century...
Hungarian PM: we are not a mixed race!
*sees this video*
PM: oh…
What races are mixed in hungarians?
@@djprojectus All of them.
I'm currently on a vacation to Hungary and the funniest thing here is that most of the souvenirs use pre trianon map
That's a real shame...
It’s quite common , “Nagymagyarország” maps are everywhere
A lot of people in these shops are really unfriendly towards Slovaks. They often speak English with anyone but you if they hear you are Slovak.
How is this casual ultra-nationalism funny to you? lol
Yes, that's the Kindom of Hungary map, it's part of our history.
Hungarians and turkish peoples are brothers and sisters...all other peoples around hungary are false friends...They took the land of hungarians and now seems to be good to hungarians.. 😢
TURKEY + HUNGARY we have the same grandfather:
❤ A T T I L A ❤
There's nothing Hungarians love more than Big Hungary. Losing two world wars should help you gain territory.