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4 days ago · Hungary, landlocked country of central Europe. The capital is Budapest. Country Facts. Capital, Population, Government... At the end of World War I, defeated Hungary lost 71 percent of its territory as a result of the Treaty of Trianon (1920). Since then, grappling with the loss of more than two-thirds of their territory and people, Hungarians ...
5 days ago · BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A crowd of tens of thousands gathered in Hungary’s capital on Saturday in a show of strength behind Prime Minister Viktor Orbán a week before the European Parliament election, a contest he has cast as an existential turning point between peace in Europe and a world war.
2 days ago · The reunited Hungary came under Habsburg rule at the turn of the 18th century, fighting a war of independence in 1703–1711, and a war of independence in 1848–1849 until a compromise allowed the formation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1867, a major power into the early 20th century.
17 hours ago · Hungary and French construction giant Vinci SA bought Budapest Airport Zrt. in a €4.3 billion ($4.7 billion) deal, handing a major asset to Prime Minister Viktor Orban who had long coveted the hub.
2 days ago · Hungary traces its history back to the Magyars, an alliance of semi-nomadic tribes from southern Russia and the Black Sea coast that arrived in the region in the ninth Century. After centuries as ...
2 days ago · Budapest [a] is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and it was the largest city on the Danube river; [11] [12] [13] today it is the second largest one.
3 days ago · Members of crime ring sentenced for human trafficking. Written by BT/MTI. A court in Gyula, in south-east Hungary, has handed down prison sentences to 16 people for trafficking women to Germany, whom they then forced to work as prostitutes, the court said in a statement on Thursday. Hungary. 6.
