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A statue of Lajos Kossuth stands on 113th Street and Riverside Drive in Manhattan, New York City. The first large wave of emigration from Hungary to the United States occurred in 1849–1850, when the so-called "Forty-Eighters" fled from retribution by Austrian authorities after the defeat of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
Greeks began arriving in Chicago in the 1840s. [70] Hungarians emigrated to Chicago at the end of the nineteenth century. [71] There is a Romanian community in Chicago. [72] Other European ethnic groups in Chicago are Slovaks, [73] Macedonians, [74] Estonians, [75] Latvians, [76] Slovenes, [77] Dutch, [78] Spaniards [79] and Norwegians. [80]
The following communities have more than 5% of the population as being of Hungarian ancestry, based on data extracted from the United States Census, 2000, for communities with more than 1,000 individuals identifying their ancestry (in descending order by percentage of population): [18] Kiryas Joel, New York 18.9%; Fairport Harbor, Ohio 11.8%
Hungarian-Slovak Roma or Balshade [1] immigrated to the United States in the late 19th century, many from (Sáros in Hungary and Zemplín counties) Košice, Slovakia.They settled in the cities of Braddock, Homestead, Johnstown, and Uniontown, Pennsylvania; Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio; Detroit and Delray, Michigan; Gary, Indiana; Chicago, and New York City and Las Vegas. [2]
There is a substantial Romani community in Chicago. The Roma first came to Chicago during the large waves of Southern and Eastern European immigration to the United States in the 1880s until World War I. They were following Serbian and Hungarian immigrants who found work in the steel mills and factories of the city. [41]
Buda, Texas, a city, it isn't known whether the name of the city is a corruption of the Spanish word "viuda" or "widow", or named after the Hungarian capital; Budapest, Georgia – Named after the capital of Hungary; actually had a Hungarian population, just like the nearby village "Tokaj", which is also named after a Hungarian settlement.
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The Pilsen Historic District is a historic district located in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Pilsen is a neighborhood made up of the residential sections of the Lower West Side community area of Chicago. It is recognized as one of the few neighborhoods in Chicago that still has buildings that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. [2]