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Hungary: Burgenland (state) Győr-Moson-Sopron (county) One of two capitals to border two sovereign states. [1] The border partly runs through the Danube, but swings west to include rural areas on the right bank of the river in Bratislava. There are multiple rail and road links to both Austria and Hungary. Brazzaville Republic of the Congo
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Hungary: Hungary – landlocked sovereign country located in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordering Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. [1] Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of OECD, NATO, EU and a Schengen state.
Less important rivers include the Drava along the Croatian border, the Rába, the Szamos, the Sió, and the Ipoly along the Slovakian border. Hungary has three major lakes. Lake Balaton, the largest, is 78 km long and from 3 to 14 km wide, with an area of 600 square km. [2] Hungarians often refer to it as the Hungarian Sea.
Székesfehérvár, it often changed the capital title with Esztergom (one of the centers of the Principality of Hungary until Stephen's crowning. Royal seats, crowning, burials, and Hungarian Diets took place from 1000 to 1543) Buda, from 1256 [3] to 1315, [4] from 1408 to 1485 and from 1490 to 1536 (1541) [Note 1]
The border between the Hungary and Slovakia (Hungarian: magyar–szlovák államhatár; Slovak: Maďarská-slovensko štátne hranice) is the international border between the Hungary and Slovakia. It forms a 679 kilometres (422 mi) [ 1 ] arc extending from the tripoint with Austria at the west to the tripoint with Ukraine at the east.
There are eight statistical regions of Hungary, These regions consist of the 19 Counties of Hungary and the capital city. There were seven regions created in 1999 by the Law 1999/XCII amending Law 1996/XXI but since 2018 the capital Budapest has left the Central Hungary region and become its own region.
Prior to the foundation of the Hungarian state, various peoples settled in the territory of present-day Hungary, including the Celts, Romans, Huns, Germanic peoples, Avars and Slavs. Hungarian statehood is traced to the Principality of Hungary , which was established in the late ninth century by Álmos and his son Árpád through the conquest ...
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