Greater Hungary
Greater Hungary ( Hungarian : Nagy-Magyarország ) denotes a definition of "Hungary" beyond the state borders that apply today according to the Treaty of Trianon of 1920. This means that the area of the empire of the united countries of the St. Stephen's Crown , i.e. the kingdom of Hungary with its neighboring countries ( Slovakia , Carpathian Ukraine , Banat , Vojvodina , Burgenland , Transylvania and small border areas in today's Poland , more rarely the formerly autonomous countries Croatia-Slavonia and Fiume ) meant or a "Hungary" which includes at least all settlement areas of the Magyars ( ethnic Hungarians).
Today, Greater Hungary is nostalgically cultivated as a collective memory or pursued by nationalists as an irredentist vision, with the latter repeatedly burdening relations between Hungary and its neighboring countries.
The Hungarian government caused diplomatic irritation in January 2011 when it laid a carpet in an EU building at the start of the EU Council Presidency , which shows the Kingdom of Hungary within its borders from 1848. This was criticized by some EU diplomats as nationalistic nostalgia, as these are areas in which large numbers of Hungarian minorities settled and which belonged to the historical Greater Hungary, but now to other EU states (e.g. Romania and the Slovakia) belong.
See also
- Greater Romania
- Greater Serbia
- History of Hungary
- Szekler
- Tschangos
- Revisionism
- Magyarization
- Arrow Cross
proof
- ↑ See also Árpád von Klimó : Trianon and "1956" - Public Remembrance in Hungary. In: OWEP 8, 2, 2007 ( Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
- ↑ BBC News: Hungary in EU presidency 'history' carpet row , accessed January 15, 2011.
