Portuguese-Hungarian relations

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The Portuguese-Hungarian relations describe the intergovernmental relationship between Portugal and Hungary . The countries have maintained renewed diplomatic relations since 1974. You are a member of the European Union . They also belong together u. a. of NATO , the OECD , the OSCE and the Schengen area to. Since 2016, Hungary has also had observer status in the community of Portuguese-speaking countries .

Since the Middle Ages, the history of the two countries crossed several times, albeit rarely profoundly. In addition to these historical points of contact, there are points of contact and mutual interest in sport and in culture, especially in literature. Bilateral economic relations have also increased since the 1990s.

During his time as ambassador at the Habsburg court in Vienna from 1745, the Portuguese envoy and later statesman Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello discussed the rivalry between the Portuguese port and the Hungarian Tokaj with the Esterházys .

history

Peter of Portugal

Elisabeth of Hungary was the aunt of Elisabeth of Portugal , who married King D. Dinis at the age of twelve and thus became Queen of Portugal from 1282 to 1325.

On his multi-year journey, the Paradise , the Portuguese heir to the throne Peter of Portugal also came to the Kingdom of Hungary between 1425 and 1428 . He met King Sigismund there , for whom he then fought in Bohemia during the Hussite Wars (1419–1434) . Otherwise, little details are known about Peter's work in Hungary.

The Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy recognized the Republic of Portugal , which was proclaimed in 1910, in September of the same year.

After the First World War (1914–1918) Austria's Emperor Karl I went into exile in Madeira . As Charles IV, he was also the last king of Hungary. Afonso Costa signed the Treaty of Trianon for Portugal on June 4, 1920, as part of the victorious allies , with which Hungary obtained a peace treaty but lost large parts of its territories.

During the Second World War (1939–1945), Ambassador Carlos Sampaio Garrido enabled around 1,000 Jewish people to flee Nazi Germany through the Portuguese embassy in Budapest , including some family members of Zsa Zsa Gabor .

Hungary's head of government Miklós Horthy later went into exile in Estoril, Portugal , where he died in 1957.

Portugal and Hungary resumed direct diplomatic relations on July 1, 1974, after the end of the anti-communist Estado Novo regime by the Portuguese Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974.

Portuguese has been the language of instruction in Hungary since 1977 and is taught in universities, high schools, institutes and private schools in Budapest and Szeged.

Portugal joined the EU in 1986, Hungary followed in 2004 after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, in which Hungary played an essential role.

The Portuguese Embassy in Budapest, also the seat of the Hungarian office of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP

diplomacy

Portugal and Hungary resumed their previous diplomatic relations on July 1, 1974. The first Portuguese ambassador in Budapest was Fernando Lopes Vieira on November 15, 1974 .

Portugal maintains its embassy in the Hungarian capital Budapest in the local MOM Park, Alkotás Utca No. 53. There are no Portuguese consulates in Hungary.

Hungary's embassy in the Portuguese capital Lisbon is located at Calçada de Santo Amaro No. 85. Hungary also has consulates in Porto , Faro on the Algarve , and Funchal on Madeira Island .

economy

The Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP is present in Budapest with a branch at the Portuguese Embassy. In addition, the bilateral Portuguese-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce Câmara de Comércio Luso-Húngara has existed in Lisbon since 2007 .

Corticeira Amorim can be considered the most important Portuguese company in Hungary . The world market leader for corks is particularly active there through its subsidiary Hungarokork - Amorim Zrt , based in Veresegyház .

In 2016, Portugal exported goods worth EUR 200.4 million to Hungary (2015: 198.6 million; 2014: 213.9 million; 2013: 181.1 million; 2012: 153.1 million; 2011: 122.3 million), of which 36.1% machines and devices, 16.0% plastics, 13.0% vehicles and vehicle parts and 6.0% chemical-pharmaceutical products.

During the same period, Hungary delivered goods worth EUR 271.7 million to Portugal (2015: 267.2 million; 2014: 231.1 million; 2013: 208.9 million; 2012: 238.9 million; 2011: 257.9 million), of which 35.6% machines and devices, 26.7% vehicles and vehicle parts, 16.4% chemical-pharmaceutical products and 3.7% optical and precision instruments.

In 2015, Hungary ranked 26th as a buyer and 27th as a supplier for Portuguese foreign trade. In Hungarian foreign trade in 2015, Portugal was 32nd among buyers and 37th among suppliers.

Twin cities

The first Portuguese-Hungarian city ​​friendship was established in 1992 in the two capitals Lisbon and Budapest . After Hungary joined the EU in 2004, Portuguese and Hungarian municipalities entered into three further partnerships (as of 2010).

Culture

Institutions

The Portuguese cultural institute, Instituto Camões , has a language center in Budapest and is also able to provide proofreading services . a. present at a number of Hungarian universities.

literature

Among the most valuable items in the National Library of Hungary is the Hebrew edition of the Comentários sobre o Pentateuco , the well-known Torah Commentaries of Nachmanides , published in Lisbon in 1489 , the first book printed in Lisbon . The National Library houses a wide variety of other Portuguese translations and books.

The Hungarian poet Miklós Zrínyi (1620–1664) referred to the Lusiads of the Portuguese poet Luís de Camões († 1580), especially in his epic “The Fall of Sziget” ( Obsidio Szigetiana ). Hungarian translations of parts of the Lusiaden have been documented since 1796 and appeared there in book form for the first time in 1805. A full Hungarian version of the Lusiaden appeared for the first time in 1860, while the modern translation is from 1984. Further poems and sonnets by Camões were translated and published in 1992/1993.

In the year of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise in 1867, the Hungarian author János Vajda (1827–1897) wrote the patriotic piece Canção lusitana , named after Portugal .

A number of Portuguese writers, including Teófilo Braga , admired the Hungarian revolutionary hero and Byron the Puszta , Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849). Antero de Quental translated Petőfi into Portuguese, probably based on a German source.

Tibor Déry (1896–1977) published a collection of novels in 1969 under the title The Princess of Portugal , but without making any deeper reference to Portuguese literature .

A large number of Portuguese authors have been translated into Hungarian, most commonly Fernando Pessoa and José Saramago .

Performance of the Portuguese group Blasted Mechanism in Budapest, 2008

music

The Portuguese composer Vianna da Motta was a pupil of Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1885 . Fernando Lopes-Graça was heavily influenced by Béla Bartók . A large number of works by Portuguese composers such as Motta, Lopes-Graça and Joly Braga Santos were recorded in Budapest and then published on phonograms.

A number of Portuguese music groups have already made guest appearances in Hungary, such as Moonspell and Blasted Mechanism . The works of some Portuguese musicians have also appeared in Hungary, such as Aurea , who also recorded a duet with the Hungarian singer Nikolas Takács and made several guest appearances there.

Fine arts

In 1994 the Fundação Árpád Szenes-Vieira da Silva Foundation was founded in Lisbon . It functions as a museum for the work of the Hungarian painter Árpád Szenes and the Portuguese painter and graphic artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva . The couple met in Paris in 1929 and married in 1930.

In 1996, a picture of painted azulejos by the Portuguese artist João Rodrigues Vieira (1934–2009) was installed in the central Deák Ferenc tér stop , where the three main metro lines of the Metró Budapest intersect . The three most important poets from both countries can be seen there with verses translated into the other language.

Movie

The Hungarian film director Ladislao Vajda made a number of Portuguese cinema films, particularly in the 1940s , such as O Diabo São Elas (1945), Três Espelhos or Viela, Rua Sem Sol (both 1947).

Hungarian directors are frequent guests at film festivals in Portugal. The Hungarian Pál Erdöss won the most important Portuguese festival, the Festróia , in 1991 with his work Homo Novus . At Fantasporto , Károly Ujj Mészáros won the main prize for Liza, the fox fairy in 2015 .

Monument to Miklós Fehér in Benfica's home stadium Estádio da Luz in Lisbon

Sports

The Portuguese national football team and Hungary's national team have met eleven times so far (as of January 2017), with seven Portuguese and four Hungarian victories. They played against each other for the first time on December 26, 1926 in a friendly match in Porto , and in front of 10,000 spectators they split 3: 3. It was only the eighth game of the Portuguese selection and the first under coach Cândido de Oliveira .

In 1964, MTK Budapest lost to the Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup .

Hungary did not qualify at the 2004 European Championship in Portugal.

Hungarian international Miklós Fehér played most of his career with Portuguese clubs. For Benfica Lisbon he was away for Vitória Guimarães on January 25, 2004 when he suffered cardiac arrest and died.

Web links

Commons : Portuguese-Hungarian Relations  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Overview of diplomatic relations with Hungary at the diplomatic institute in the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs , accessed on May 4, 2019
  2. ^ CPLP website on Associate Observer Status , CPLP website, accessed May 8, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Fernando Cristóvão (Ed.): Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia. Texto Editores, Lisbon / Luanda / Praia / Maputo 2006 ( ISBN 972-47-2935-4 ), p. 817
  4. ↑ Overview of the activities in Hungary , website of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP, accessed on February 16, 2017
  5. ↑ Website of the Câmara de Comércio Luso-Húngara ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Portuguese and Hungarian), accessed February 16, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cclusohungara.pt
  6. ↑ Bilateral economic relations between Portugal and Hungary , Excel file retrieval from the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP , accessed on February 16, 2017
  7. ↑ Overview of activities in Hungary , website of the Portuguese cultural institute Instituto Camões , accessed on February 16, 2017
  8. ↑ Fernando Cristóvão (Ed.): Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia. Texto Editores, Lisbon / Luanda / Praia / Maputo 2006 ( ISBN 972-47-2935-4 ), p. 818