Ethnographic map of Hungary, according to the census of 1910

Ethnographic map of Hungary, according to the census of 1910 - by Paul Teleki

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‘Tbh it was even more fair now that I look at it on a redmap

That’s because you vaguely recognise the new shape of Hungary in the main Red area, but don’t see that the new state borders were drawn on average 50 kms inside the red area. As a result over 2 million Hungarians living in majority Hungarian regions found themselves outside of Hungary overnight, without ever being asked. Almost all these parts were annexed to the successor states because of strategic considerations, fertile agricultural land in the case of Southern Czechoslovakia, important railway junctions in most other cases. Despite being overwhelmingly Hungarian. So much for “national self-determination”

The other 1.5 million Hungarians lived further from the new borders, 0.5 millions of them Transylvanian Szeklers, the remaining 1 million in smaller enclaves, or completely dispersed.

Or consider that the 3 million Romanians received a bigger chunk territory (103K km2) when already having their own country, than what was left for 10 million Hungarians (93K km2). Yeah, super fair.

Plus, but this is hindsight of course, basically all successor states treated their minorities far worse than Austro-Hungary ever did.’

Topographic Map of Hungary

Topographic Map of Hungary

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‘Mmmmm, Pannonian Basin

The Pannonian Basin, or Carpathian Basin, is a large basin in Central Europe. The geomorphological term Pannonian Plain is more widely used for roughly the same region though with a somewhat different sense, with only the lowlands, the plain that remained when the Pliocene Epoch Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system, specifically a sediment-filled back-arc basin which spread apart during the Miocene. Most of the plain consists of the Great Hungarian Plain (in the south and east, including the Eastern Slovak Lowland) and the Little Hungarian Plain (in the northwest), divided by the Transdanubian Mountains’

Romanians in Hungary (1890 census, drawn in 1897)

Romanians in Hungary (1890 census, drawn in 1897)

“Still 59% Romanians compared to top 30% hungarians. And this is a hungarian census that were usually counting gypsies and jews as hungarians. The censuses were usually language based and not ethnic based. Meaning that even if you were a Romanian that knew a bit of hungarian, they’d register you as hungarian”–vladgrinch

Ethnic map of Hungary 1910 (no labels)

Ethnic map of Hungary 1910 (no labels)

“Hungary was always like multi ethnic since the kingdoms foundation, however the Mongol and then Ottoman wars heavily decimated the central areas of the kingdom primarily inhabited by Hungarians (as Slavs and Vlachs due to their pastoral lifestyle and being less urbanized in general lived in mainly hill, mountainous regions). After both times there were large resettlement partially from other countries at invitation of kings and just spontenous migration as well”–k_csk