People of Hungarian Descent - Hungarians in Slovakia, Gyula Andrassy, Gabor Baross, Laszlo Kubala, Tamas Priskin, Janos Esterhazy, Artur Gorgey (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Hungarians in Slovakia, Gyula Andrassy, Gabor Baross, Laszlo Kubala, Tamas Priskin, Janos Esterhazy, Artur Gorgey, Party of the Hungarian Coalition, Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary, Balazs Borbely, Fidel Palffy, Koloman Gogh, Gyula Andrassy the Younger, Zoltan Harsanyi, Imre Madach, Kalman Mikszath, Istvan Friedrich, Arpad Feszty, Bela Bugar, Denes Berinkey, Zita Ple tinska, Julius Torma, Hungarian National Party, Pal Csaky, Arpad Duka-Zolyomi, Edit Bauer, Imre Nemeth, Janos Hadik, Pal Szinyei Merse, Jozsef Csermak, Jolan Babus, Zoltan Palkovacs, Alexander Pituk, Karoly Hadaly, Pavol Adami, Alojz Rigele, Joey Jagan. Excerpt: Hungarians in Slovakia are the largest ethnic minority of the country, numbering 520,528 people or 9.7% of population (2001 census). They are concentrated mostly in the southern part of the country, near the border with Hungary. Averaged on district level, they form the majority in two districts: Komarno (Komaromi jaras) and Dunajska Streda (Dunaszerdahelyi jaras). They are generally bilingual in Hungarian and Slovak. Janos Esterhazy - politician, count, martyr of the Slovak Hungarians Map showing the border changes after the Treaty of Trianon. As a result, Hungary lost over two-thirds of its territory, about two-thirds of its inhabitants under the treaty and 3.3 million out of 10 million ethnic Hungarians. After the defeat of the Central Powers in the Western Front in 1918, the Treaty of Trianon was signed between the winning Entente powers and Hungary in 1920, at the Paris Peace Conference. In consideration of the strategic and economic interests of their new ally Czechoslovakia, the victorious allies set the Czechoslovak-Hungarian border further south than the Slovak-Hungarian language border. Consequently, the newly created state annexed areas that were overwhelmingly ethnic Hungarian. When Czecho...