History of Hungary: A Captivating Guide to Hungarian History, Starting from the Roman Empire through the Magyar Tribes, Austro-Hungarian Empire and ... to the Present (European Countries)

In 1967 did I first time visit Hungary together with a group of students of the Helsinki School of Economics on their last year excursion, being their teacher and the formal leader of the two-week excursion to South-East Europe. Then in the 1970s, I had a Hungarian immigrant student following my lectures in economics, speaking fluent Finnish. Then I got the idea of starting to learn the Hungarian language as a hobby when retired from my Office. Which also happened some 20 years later! As a matter of fact, four years before the retirement. The immediate reason was my participation on a two-week trip to Hungary together with my wife as participants of her employer, Radio Finland's regular exchange program with the Hungarian Radio.Since then the Hungarian language and culture have been my hobby. Some dozen trips and over a hundred books, more book pages read than in any other language, Finnish included. Now the last nail: since the beginning of 2020 daily a couple of hours of Hungarian TV channels on IPTV world television.What have I learned? A lot, of course. But not nearly as much as I could have expected. For me, the Hungarian language has been and stays the most difficult language of all the ten I have actively learned. Of course, after a quarter of a century, I can communicate: read fairly easily using the dictionary, discuss with a friend, understand almost all words in a TV Program, but more often than not, fail completely understand the contents of the program. But I have not lost hope...This concise History of Hungary (no author name!), very well-read and clearly composed, has greatly increased my factual knowledge about Hungary because practically all other books have been nonfiction or historical novels at most. This, despite its small size, is nothing else than detailed and solid factual knowledge and information, some places even too much of it for me to comprehend. When reading I have made so many notes that I already expected that there would be a stop to introducing additional as a couple of times before. But I understood: no need for that because the book is supplied by Project Gutenberg, which allows completely free use of the text. It is a superb feature of Gutenberg that the text can be downloaded in Kindle format to which I am accustomed having been 10 years reading, and now lately regularly also reviewing Amazon ebooks.I have also actively given feedback on the Kindle reading program. And I have the feeling that many of my improvement suggestions have been observed because the suggested improvements have been introduced a couple of weeks later. Years ago Amazon allowed even $10 remunerations usable at further purchases of books. I have got two of them. Then they noticed the end of this practice. Continued to accept feedback, but now have discontinued doing so, without announcing about it. They allow introducing feedback, but then, however, do not accept it, saying "try another time". What other conclusion can I make than that I personally have been put on a blacklist?And, however, I am convinced about the rationality of my suggestions made after such a long practical experience. Here three most important ones: 1. Drop the complicated system of Notes as it is now. Introduce a simple Notebook instead. 2. Provide with the Table of Contents awaiting the reader notes introduction in between the lines of the contents. 3. Provide the TOC with page numbers before the heading lines instead of at the end of them both in the TOC used in the text as a link list and in the Notepad for introducing reader notes.I Make my Notes into an external Notebook. Tried recently introduced to the note system provided by Amazon. The latter indeed very clumsy, took at least five times so long Time and so much typing. Halfway I dropped Amazon and continued my way.But this book without any reservations deserves all five stars as my grateful assessment.

Hungary has been at the center of everything for a very long time. Originally settled by Magyars, with a unique language, it has quite a number of minority populations. It borders Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. It was an important buffer for Europe from the ever-expanding Ottoman Empire, was occupied by the Nazis, and "liberated" by the Soviets. It barely touched on the revolution I found so interesting in Michener's Bridge at Andau. A good short overview of Hungarian history.

This book presents and analyzes the evolution of Hungary as a nation-state. Hungary's modern (post-1946) borders roughly correspond to the Great Hungarian Plain (the Pannonian Basin). During the Iron Age, it was located at the crossroads between the cultural spheres of the Celtic Tribes (such as the Scordisci, Boii, and Veneti), Dalmatian Tribes (such as the Dalmatian, Histri, and Liburni), and the Germanic Tribes (such as the Lugii and Marcomanni).The name "Pannonian" comes from Pannonia, a province of the Roman Empire. Only the western part of the territory (the so-called Transdanubia) of modern Hungary formed part of the ancient Roman Province of Pannonia. The Roman control collapsed with the Hunnic invasions of 370–410. Pannonia was part of the Ostrogothic Kingdom during the late 5th to mid 6th century, succeeded by the Avar Khaganate (6th to 9th centuries) civil. The Magyar invasion took place during the 9th century.The Magyars were Christianized at the end of the 10th century, and the Christian Kingdom of Hungary was established in AD 1000, ruled by the Árpád dynasty for the following three centuries. In the high medieval period, the kingdom expanded beyond Pannonia to the Adriatic coast. In 1241 during the reign of Béla IV, Hungary was invaded by the Mongols under Batu Khan. The outnumbered Hungarians were decisively defeated at the Battle of Mohi by the Mongol army. King Béla fled to the Holy Roman Empire and left the Hungarian population at the mercy of the Mongols. In this invasion, more than 500,000 Hungarian people were massacred, and the whole kingdom was reduced to ashes. After the extinction of the Árpád dynasty in 1301, the late medieval kingdom persisted, albeit no longer under Hungarian monarchs, and gradually reduced due to the increasing pressure from the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. Hungary bore the brunt of the Ottoman wars in Europe during the 15th century. This struggle's peak occurred during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (r. 1458–1490). The Ottoman–Hungarian wars concluded in significant loss of territory and the partition of the kingdom after the Battle of Mohács of 1526.Defense against Ottoman expansion shifted to Habsburg, Austria, and the remainder of the Hungarian kingdom came under the rule of the Habsburg emperors. The lost territory was recovered with the conclusion of the Great Turkish War. Thus the whole of Hungary became part of the Habsburg monarchy. Following the nationalist uprisings of 1848, the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 elevated Hungary's status by creating a joint monarchy. The territory grouped under the Habsburg Archiregnum Hungaricum was much larger than modern Hungary following the Croatian–Hungarian Settlement of 1868, which settled the political status of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia within the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen.After the first World War, the Central Powers enforced the dissolution of the Habsburg monarchy. The treaties of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Trianon detached around 72% of the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary, which was ceded to Czechoslovakia, the Kingdom of Romania, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the First Austrian Republic, the Second Polish Republic and the Kingdom of Italy. Afterward, a short-lived People's Republic was declared. It was followed by a restored Kingdom of Hungary but was governed by a regent, Miklós Horthy. He officially represented the Hungarian monarchy of Charles IV, the Apostolic King of Hungary, who was held captive during his last months at Tihany abbey. Between 1938 and 1941, Hungary recovered part of its lost territories. During World War II, Hungary came under German occupation in 1944, then under Soviet occupation until the war's end. After World War II, the Second Hungarian Republic was established within Hungary's current-day borders as a socialist People's Republic, lasting from 1949–1989. In October 1989, the Third Republic of Hungary was established under an amended version of the constitution of 1949, with a new form adopted in 2011. Hungary joined the European Union in 2004.It is a well-written book.

Good information

Great discovery of history

A brief history of Hungary that provides a history of the country over the years. My grandparents immigrated to the United States in the early 1900 and I was interested in learning more about the country.

Not many Americans know much about European history, especially the eastern part . I was disturbed to learn how much of it is turning far right

A very short but concise history of Hungary A nice primer for our upcoming trip.

The book is fine as an overview, don't expect to see details there though. On top, there are factual mistakes: for instance, describing Middle Ages instead of referring to Rus' they refer to Russia which didn't exist back then.

As a history buff it gave me a working knowledge of this country's history. No great depth but that was not the book's intention

If you're ten years old or younger this might be of use to you. Anybody older than that will most likely find it patronising in the extreme, badly written with many illustrations that require a magnifying glass to be of still very limited use.£10.00 for Just over a hundred pages of what looks like 12 or even 14 point font does not sound like good value.Captivating it certainly is not. Self published it certainly is and badly.