Kisebbségpolitikai
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the northeastern mountainous region of the Kingdom of Hungary, with its mainly Rusyn, Hungarian, Jewish, Slovak and Romanian population, was one of the...

The new administrative division of Romania after the communist takeover was modified in 1952, under direct pressure from Moscow, and the Hungarian Autonomous Region (Regiunea Autonomă Maghiară, HAR) was created...

The issue of Hungarian autonomy in Transylvania was raised again by the Hungarian Democratic Alliance of Romania (DAHR), which acted on behalf of the Hungarian minority, after the fall of...

The Treaty of Trianon, signed after World War 1 on 4 June 1920, sanctioned the division of the multi-ethnic Kingdom of Hungary on the basis of ethnic principles. Although the...

Since the beginnings of the construction of modern nation-states in the 18th and 19th centuries, the phenomenon of (numerical) minority of certain groups of the dominant (“titular”) nation in some...

The administrative reform implemented in Romania at the end of 1960 also had a significant impact on the Hungarian Autonomous Region. The province was renamed Mureș-Hungarian Autonomous Region (Regiunea Mureș-Autonomă...

After World War 1, about a third of the Hungarians living in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy came under foreign rule. This inevitably influenced the subsequent policy of the Hungarian governments: the...

In the final stages of World War 1, the right of peoples to self-determinationtook on great importance, and the Entente powers and their allies included the assertion of this right...

Reconciling political and ethnic boundaries has been a major goal of national movements and nation-states since the rise of nationalism. However, these aspirations have long been hampered by multi-ethnic empires...

Although the blue and gold flag with a sun star and crescent moon, which has become the symbol of the Szekler autonomist movement, is a brand new creation, it is...