Founded by Etienne
1st around the year 1000, the Kingdom of Hungary
was three and a half times larger than the current Hungarian state.
The country has been shaken by numerous crises, successively coveted
by the Huns, the Avars, the Magyars, the Mongolians, the Hapsburg,
and the Turks. Hungary regained total freedom in 1918,
deposing the Hapsburg, but lost two thirds of its land
after the Treaty of Trianon in 1920.
The People’s Republic of Hungary was declared in 1949.
was three and a half times larger than the current Hungarian state.
The country has been shaken by numerous crises, successively coveted
by the Huns, the Avars, the Magyars, the Mongolians, the Hapsburg,
and the Turks. Hungary regained total freedom in 1918,
deposing the Hapsburg, but lost two thirds of its land
after the Treaty of Trianon in 1920.
The People’s Republic of Hungary was declared in 1949.
which led to the election of a Hungarian Parliament by universal suffrage in 1990. In the same year, the government began
privatisation of its stake in the wine industry. Hungary joined the European Union in May 2004.
