Hungarians in Slovakia
Hungarians or Magyars are the largest ethnic minority of Slovakia, numbering 520,528 people or 9.7% of population (2001 census). They are mostly concentrated in the southern part of the country, near the border with Hungary, and they form majority in two districts of Slovakia - Komárno (Komáromi járás) and Dunajská Streda (Dunaszerdahelyi járás).
Famous Hungarians born in Slovakia - before 1918
- Gyula Andrássy (Košice, Slovakia; politician)
- Gyula Andrássy the Younger (Trebišov, Slovakia; politician)
- Bálint Balassi (Zvolen, Slovakia; poet)
- Miklós Bercsényi (Tematín, Slovakia; captain)
- Lujza Blaha (Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia; actress, "the nightingale of the nation")
- Mór Jókai (Komárno, Slovakia; writer)
- Imre Madách (Dolná Strehová, Slovakia; poet)
- Kálmán Mikszáth (Sklabiná, Slovakia; writer)
- Francis II Rákóczi (Borša, Slovakia; captain)
- Gyula Reviczky (Vítkovce, Slovakia; poet)
- Mihály Tompa (Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia; poet)
Famous Hungarians born in Slovakia known worldwide
- Sándor Márai (Košice, Slovakia; writer)
Famous Hungarians living only in Slovakia
- László Mécs (Družstevná pri Hornáde, Slovakia; poet)
Hungarian sportsmen born/living in Slovakia
- Balázs Borbély
- Imrich Bugár Imre Bugár
- Koloman Gögh Kálmán Gögh'
- Szilárd Németh
- Alexander Pituk Sándor Pituk
- Tamás Priskin
- Richard Réti
Hungarian political parties
- Party of the Hungarian Coalition (Strana maďarskej koalície - Magyar Koalíció Pártja), in the government before 2006.
Hungarian politicians in Slovakia
- Béla Bugár - chairman of Party of the Hungarian Coalition
- Edit Bauer - member of Member of the European Parliament
- László Nagy
- Pál Csáky
- László Gyurovszky
- Miklós Duray
- Count János Esterházy - sentenced to death, died in prison, the only member of Slovak parliament who voted against deportation of the Jews in 1941 [1]
- Károly Tóth Leader of the Forum institute, which compiles statistics on minorities in Slovakia.
Hungarian born in Slovakia, career in Hungary
- Lajos Kassák (Nové Zámky, Slovakia; poet, painter, typographer, graphic artist)
- Ernő Dohnányi (Bratislava, Slovakia; conductor, composer, pianist)
- Katalin Szvorák
- János Manga
Culture
- Új Szó, a Hungarian language daily newspaper published in Bratislava [2]
- Madách - former Hungarian publishing house in Bratislava
- Kalligram - Hungarian publishing house in Bratislava [3]
See also
- Demographics of Slovakia
- Slovakization
- Magyars
- Hungarian minority in Romania
- Hungarians in Vojvodina
- Székely
- Székelys of Bukovina
- Csángó
- Magyarab