#hungarians

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Ethnic Hungarians engage in weaving; from the Szék (Sic) region of Transylvania, Romania - Péter Korniss

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Ethnonyms: Magyar, Hungarian

Total population: c. 14.5 million

Ethnolinguistic classification: Uralic → Ugric

Homeland: Pannonian Basin, Hungary

Regions with significant populations: Hungary, Romania, Transylvania, Harghita County, Covasna County, Mureș County, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Serbia, the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Ukraine, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Austria

Languages and dialects: Hungarian

Religion: Christianity (majority), the Catholic Church, Reformed Christianity, Lutheranism, the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism, Irreligion

The Hungarians, or Magyars, are the people most closely associated with Hungary, though substantial Hungarian communities also live in Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Croatia, and Serbia; their own name for the country, Magyarország, reflects the central place of Magyar identity in their national history. They are unusual in Europe because their language is not Indo-European but belongs to the Uralic family, specifically the Finno-Ugric/Ugric branch, and it has long been written in a modified Latin alphabet; its grammar is strongly agglutinative, with extensive suffixing, vowel harmony, and a sound system and morphology that remain recognizably Uralic despite heavy borrowing from Iranian, Turkic, Slavic, Latin, German, and other languages over centuries of contact. Historically, the proto-Hungarians are described as a blend of Ugric and Turkic elements who moved from the eastern steppe world into the Carpathian Basin by the late ninth century, where they established a durable polity that became one of Europe’s long-lasting states; after Christianization, they were drawn into Latin Christendom, but later their region became a frontier zone shaped by repeated invasions, Ottoman occupation, Habsburg rule, and the territorial losses after World War I, all of which deeply influenced Hungarian collective memory and identity. Culturally, Hungarians have maintained a strong sense of distinctiveness through art, music, literature, and folk traditions such as embroidery and ceramics, while modern Hungarian culture remains strongly centered on Budapest and marked by a long tradition of scholarship, science, and artistic achievement that has also extended into a large diaspora abroad.

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Imre Ámos, Girl with Flower and Wall Clock, Ink on paper. (source)

Imre Ámos was a Jewish artist born in Nagykálló, Hungary, on December 7th, 1907. He was killed in a concentration camp in Germany (Ohrdruf concentration camp, most likely) in 1944. May he rest in peace. ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.

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[miraculous-cumberbitch]

ok this is me trying to gain more mutuals, i used to be a lot more active on here in 2021-2023 but i wasnt on here as much as usual until a few weeks ago, where my moots at!

heres stuff im interested in:

STAR WARS!! (my phase never left and i cannot stop consuming star wars content)

shadow and bone/six of crows

narnia

little women (2019) aka my favorite movie of all time

x-men (recently introduced to me by a friend)

used to be big on miraculous (hence the user) i have not seen the new season, but i do consume content from time to time

sherlock bbc (hence the second part of the user)

taylor swift, i am a HUGE swiftie and i love her music

carson coma (or just being hungarian in general)

literally this is me just reaching out for more star wars mutuals specifically lol.

if you are interested in any of these feel free to follow! im off from school so enjoy my random yells into the void, thats about all i have to offer

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Hungarian rhythmic gymnast Hanna Panna Wiesner | cluj-napoca challenge cup 2025

World Championships Rio 2025 | Photographer: Anna Kull [source]