I can already tell that the comments will be very civilized and polite.

I've had conversations with 2 Hungarian individuals decades apart and they both used the phrase 'My little country' as in 'I'm impressed that you know so much about my little country.' I don't think they meant that it was like Luxenberg. They meant it was smaller than it should be. This feeling has been passed down through the generations.

Hungarian-Brazilian here. (Part of) My family left Hungary because of Trianon, as they were living in Trieste at the time and the end of the war got them kicked not to Hungary but to Yugoslavia (???). In 1926, they arrived to Brazil and started out fresh, but the trauma of war and post-war persecution made them completely hide their identities (and language) as Hungarians. I claimed Hungarian citizenship based on descent and now strive to rebuild what we have lost: our language and customs, but never our country.

Forgot to mention the Communist Revolution that occurred in Hungary, this massively impacted the treaty of Trianon

Most of it is correct. A comment on the end: the Hungarian-Romanian relationship is (apart from provocative web comments) relatively friendly. On the other hand, the Hungarian-Ukrainian relationship soured a lot after Ukraine introduced a language law in 2017 that would have prohibited ethnic Hungarian children from learning in their native language in schools. (The law was mainly aimed at ethnic Russians, the impact on Hungarians was a byproduct.) The law was abolished in 2023, but things are not yet back to normal. "What do you think? Should Hungary have kept some of this territory?" It's not like we didn't try to...

“It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.” - Publilius Syrus I raise my glass for my Hungarian friends love from Finland.

Bosniak and Bosnian are not the same. It`s not only Bosniak diaspora when you talk about Bosnia at 0:59 , but also Serbian and Croatian. About 50% of Bosnian population is comprised of Serbs and Croats, and 50% of Bosniaks.

As a Hungarian, living in Slovakia, thank you for this video! Not many people know about this sadly

It is a big topic with long history. I want to add 3 important points: 1. The Mongol invasion killed 1/3 of Hungary's population. 2. The 150+ years of fights with the Ottomans depopulated most of the Hungarian Kingdom leading to more diverse nationalities settling in. 3. There were also multiple failed revolutions against Austrian rule and for the re-establishment of independent Hungary. Think of the results of failed revolutions and the increased oppression, atrocities afterwards... Diversity without any mainstream uniting principles didnt prove to be the strength of the kingdom in the end.

As a History enthusiastic Romanian studying Politics and International Relations in the UK, I have dedicated many years of my life better understanding this dispute concerning our two countries. I was born and lived all my life almost in the city of Arad, very close to the Hungarian border, a city shrouded in deep multicultural history, a reference point for both the Hungarian and the Romanian nations in the making of their recent histories. Living in a multicultural environment and having many friends of Hungarian descent, but also having travelled to Hungary at some point for 2-3 years almost weekly, helped me gather the similarities between our two peoples. I personally find Hungarians extremely kind and friendly, with a very rich culture, beautiful language (that I am myself trying to learn out of respect for my region’s unique multiculturalism - Transylvania and Banat), with some of the tastiest food on the continent, and their country having an absolutely gorgeous architecture overall. Being in close contact with Hungarians in Romania and with Hungarians from Hungary made me better understand what 1920 meant to them, and I am very glad I got the chance to view the other side of the same story as well! What I can say is that yes, the empire could not further survive in the form it used to be at that time, given the constant push from all sides to form or reunite their nations in the age of solidifying one entity’s cultural and linguistic identities. I personally think that Romanians did deserve taking a big chunk of Transylvania, given the demographic figures at that time supporting a Romanian majority living on that territory, but the way this took place should have been different. I completely acknowledge that Northern Transylvania was, and still is to some extent, more Hungarian, while the southern bit of the territory more Romanian. Therefore, cities on the border such as Oradea (Nagyvárad), Satu Mare (Szatmárnémeti), Salonta (Nagyszalonta), even my city Arad perhaps, should have stayed within Hungary, given the immediate proximity to the border and the overall Hungarian ethnic and linguistic majority there. On top of that, I assume few people in Hungary today may be aware that when the Romanian elite and people in Transylvania gathered in Alba Iulia (Gyulafehérvár) to proclaim the unity of the territory with the Kingdom of Romania in 1918, that proclamation of unification addressed to Bucharest also entailed equal linguistic and religious rights for all nations comprising the territory, not just for the majority, demanding even their autonomy, a fact that only goes to show how visionary the Transylvanian Romanian elite at the time was, mainly thanks to living in such a diverse empire beforehand. Sadly, Bucharest took too little notice of our endeavours, and pursued a policy centred solely around the further consolidation of the most numerous ethnicity. It is hard and almost impossible to redraw borders today, given that demographics changed for the most part, but what the Romanian state could do would be to grant more rights to the ethnic Szeklers. My personal idea is that granting them autonomy in Transylvania could be a bit risky in light of Victor Orbán’s constant revisionism today, but my solution would the decentralisation in administration and the creation of 9 historic and autonomous regions (based on the Spanish model), where each region minds its own internal affairs without too much intervention from Bucharest. Therefore, Hungarian could become co-official in Banat (Bánság), Transylvania (Erdély), Crișana (Körösvidék), and Maramureș (Máramaros), leading to a long-term peace prospect. And this could happen, as it is already a reality in the Serbian autonomous province of Vojvodina (Vajdaság), where 6 languages are official, this example also being an important reference point to the topic discussed. I am as well asking the Hungarian part to also acknowledge the struggles of the Romanian people under the Kingdom of Hungary and their neglect from education and political and administrative lives. The policy of magyarisation for example was one of the worst to all ethnic groups living withing Greater Hungary, and I wish more Hungarians shed light on the importance of this to us, and what led to the ultimate breakaway of the empire as well. I mean this in the least nationalistic manner, but it is paramount for both sides to acknoweldge their wrongdoings in building a better future. All in all, I will personally do everything in my power and ability as an aspiring politician home to ensure that the rights of all ethnic groups in Romania are fully respected, and I truly and wholeheartedly hope that one day our two countries will learn the art of compromise and reconciliation, based on the post-World War 2 Franco-German model of deep cooperation and brotherly relations in a broader European Union. Nagyon szeretek a magyarokat, a magyar kultúrátokat és a magyar nyelveteket, és remélem a jövőben minden jobb, békés és barátságos két országunk között az EU-ban lesz! Éljen a román-magyar egység! 🇭🇺❤️🇷🇴

We going back to the 9th century with this one

A few details not mentioned: - Apparently the Hungarian delegation was arrested when they arrived, and were only allowed to make their case as a formality, after the treaty was finalized, but before it was signed. The documents the Hungarian delegation presented were acknowledged, but ignored. - The Hungarian army completely disbanded after WW1, the leadership hoped that this will give the peace negotiations more favorable terms. With no army to defend the country, the Romanians and Serbs started pushing and looting during the time of the negotiations, and no one cared to stop them. I think it would be really funny if an expert of international law would look at the circumstances of how this treaty was created.

Fun fact... as a reaction to Woodrow Wilson's 14 points program, there was a proposal in Czechoslovakia to rename Prešporok (historical name of Bratislava, which is a Slovak capital) to Wilson City... but it was decided to pick Bratislava instead

As a Hungarian I think, that the Treaty of Trianon should've been more fair, mainly because this whole thing brought a lot of suffering for both sides. However I also think, that changing it back today would create just as many problems. Treating each other fairly, respecting each other's culture and language and try to find a way to live peacefully together - I think, that's the way forward.

Guys, with respect, the problem with Trianon is not that Hungary loosed a X amount of land and population, it was nearly inevitable in the age of nationalism in a multiethical state. The problem started with the borders. Huge part of the remaining 3.3 million hungarians live in homogeneous ethnically separate part of South-Slovakia (for hungarian fanboys on the south part of Felvidék), in Partium (FFB: Párcium) and in Vojvodina (Vajdasàg). These borders was draw by strategic interest, like in the Middle East. Rivers, railway lines, etc... and i didn't mention the situation with the Székelys (FFB:Székelyek)

I also never understood why Italy got whole South Tyrol and not just the southern part where the majority were Italians

Thank you for the great video! It's great this subject gets more attention.

i just have to say i'm actually pleasantly surprised that so far there were very few and not very severe fights in the comments between romanians and hungarians, keep it up guys!!!

My aunt ran away from hungry in 1956 and she's very rich and happy in San Diego😊

OMG someone with more than 50k subscribers is talking about my country Love from hungary

Clarification: dual citizenship is not allowed in Ukraine for a long while, not just since recently

Im pretty sure it's not Nicholas Horthy but Miklos Horthy.

Thank you for covering this topic!

Can't wait for Hungarian Nationalist to comment "Slovakia, Translvania, Vojvodina is Hungary!" As a Slovak, i understand Southern Slovakia, but if you want the rest of Slovakia, well that might be too far.

The Treaties that ended WW I was collectively known as The Paris Peace Conference 18th January 1919 to the 21st January 1920. The five Central Powers signed their separate treaties with the Allies at various locations in and around Paris. 1) Germany signed at Versailles on 28th June 1919. 2) Austria signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 10th September 1919. 3) Bulgaria signed at Nueilly-sur-Seine on 27th November 1919. 4) Hungary signed at Trianon on 4th June 1920. 5) Turkey signed at Sevres on 10th August 1920. However there was so much resistance to the Treaty of Sevres in Turkey itself. Which was coupled with the fact that the Allies were unable/unwilling to impose the Treaty by military intervention meant that a second revised Treaty between the Allies and Turkey was required. This revised Treaty being signed at Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24th July 1924. The Treaty of Trianon was in many ways the harshest of the Treaties. Hungary lost over 70% of it's pre war territory (down from 325,408 Square Km to 92,962 Square Km) Hungary was also the only former Central Power signatory at the Paris Peace Conference to lose territory to another former Central Power signatory. As most of the Burgenland (with only Sopron remaining in Hungary following a plebiscite) was ceded to Austria. This was due to the area being largely German speaking.

Thank you for this video, it means a lot to us Hungarians! Many people did not even know these facts.

Correct title: Why Are There So FEW Hungarians In Slovakia & Romania Compares To The Past?

Quem também tinha uma população amplamente dispersa eram os alemães! Alem da Alemanha, Austria e Suiça, haviam alemães na França, Romenia, Polonia, Ucrania e até na região russa do Volga e possuiam uma república soviética autônoma! A situação mudou após a segunda guerra mundial!

A true success story, eh? 😆 Anyway, good video. To my ear it's always strange to hear 'Magyar' as opposed to 'Hungarian', since they literally mean the exact same thing ('magyar' means 'Hungarian' in Hungarian). But I understand the distinction in the historic context. About Trianon, let me start by saying I hate the revisionism that's being supported by some elements in the country, and I think it's about time people moved on and make the best of what we've got (oh they're gonna love this). Some of this 'trauma' stays because it wasn't properly analysed and honest truths were never really spoken (kinda like Japan in WWII). Our involvement is undeniable in this. However, I will say that objectively, Trianon was in fact harsh and it could've been more 'fair', if you want to use that word for a losing country. But then again, our leaders at the time weren't exactly on top of their lobbying efforts either. Oh well. I maintain my belief that the vast majority of my countrymen don't want anything to do with restoration of any kind and instead want a lasting good relation with our neighbors - which, despite everything, we largely still have right now. And with that, let the abuse begin. 😂

Well, when you look at the ethnicity and nationality map of XIX and early XX century you could see that dividing this land into national states was simply impossible. Germans, Hungarians, Poles, Ukrainians, Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians and dozens of other nations lived quite well mixed with regions of majorities, but still many enclaves and exclaves. The issue was mainly ended after WW2, when communist deported most of the minorities. However even they did not solve the problem to the end since playing on national divisions was one of the main Stalin's ways to control and subdue local communist authorities. This led to many conflicts in the whole postsoviet region, e.g. in Georgia, Karabach or to very weird and impractical borders (look at the Fergana region in Central Asia).

It’s interesting as a Hungarian that you chose the Felvidék (Lower Slovakia) flag right at the end when you mentioned Hungarian diasporic communities making flags. The first one that comes to mind are the Székelys who are a very big group within the Transylvanian diaspora itself.

Great video

Hungary was divided completely unfairly after the First World War.

Ok, ok. I'm aware that this video is about Hungarian ethnicity in neighbouring countries but I just want to clarify that Albanian percentage living outside of Albania is way higher then shown in the map. I can easily say that Albanians living in neighbouring countries is close to 100%.

Good video.

The people didn't move, Hungary did.

You really left out a great deal of history. The important thing to understand is that from c.900 to c.1600, the vast majority of Hungary was populated by Hungarians, with some small Turkic and German minorities, as well as small slavic and Vlach populations. After 1526, the Ottoman Turks conquered much of Hungary and it was the "fightin' Magyars' who bled, while the minorities did not. After 1699, when the Hungarian nobility elected Hapsburg kings in part of Hungary, these broke the law and imported large numbers of Germans, Vlach/Rumanians, Slavs etc. As a result, as a punishment for defending Christendom, Hungary began being swamped by these migrants. The Western Allies, after WWI, were led by two motives: Imperialism and racism. They claimed we Hungarians were "Asiatic savages" unlike the surrounding 'pure Indo-Germans', so they cut cities and towns in half, separated families and committed ethnic cleansing. Some three million Hungarians still live in their ancestral homes, some having been there for 1,000 or 800 years, but the borders moved without them being asked -- in the name of democracy!

Do why there are so many Chinese in Singapore despite it being so far away from mainland China

Love these videos

That is an excellent question. And the answer is: Only one way to find out.

Hungary is the only country in the world that is surrounded by itself.

Romanians and Hungarians shall prosper together in the future as partners and leave behind our struggles and problems. 🇷🇴🤝🇭🇺

I saw the title and immediately went "Oh no what have you done?"

When Wilson was in Paris for the Peace treaty, Ho Chi Minh was was working as a cook at a Chinese restaurant, sent a letter to the American president asking that the US acknowledged Vietnam’s independence. He was ignored and then turned into Communism after realising the West’s hypocrisy. Such a hilarious episode and such a lost opportunity

You should talk about all the Germans outside of Germany next

1. The Wilsonian principles provided for autonomy based on national criteria in a certain legally recognized territory, not in every town or village. Americans did not like anarchy and did not want such a thing. The Hungarians were a minority in Transylvania and in the territories belonging to it. This explains the fact that some areas where they were the majority remained in Romania. 2. Shortly after the conquest of Transylvania, the Hungarians forbade the majority of Romanians to live in cities. They tried to invoke at Trianon the fact that in 1918 the cities were Hungarian majorities in Transylvania, but their own reports showed that never in Transylvania's history were Hungarians the majority in Transylvania. 3. The Hungarians are great specialists in using false maps in their revisionist propaganda. 4. The Hungarians claim to be victims of the Treaty of Trianon, but they never say how much injustice and crimes they committed against the majority ethnic groups in the territories they lost.

A little addition: The decrease of the population was also caused by the Ottomans and later the revolution of 1848-49 as the country was attacked by 6 nations at the same time, 7 if we include Russia that joined the Habsurg's side later

I think that 6% in the beginning supposed to be 60%... Just that 1 million Hungarian in Romania are already 10% of Hungarys population. Also maybe I'm wrong, but last time I read about it, it was around 16 million Hungarian around the world, almost 10 million living in Hungary.

10:40 poland got some minor territories near slovakia

To answer your question, the answer should be what the Hungarian delegation asked for: The will of the people, or referenda. Of course, the Allies were not interested in democracy as racist and imperialist powers (see what they did in Africa and the Middle East.) Grant our request and all will be fine.

And they like to forget the followings: As you mentioned at the start of the video hungarians migrated into Carpatian basin from Asia and stated their kingdom (the whole basin was the territory of the kingdom). But during around thousand years there were a lot of conflict and war in this area by invaders for example tatars, ottomans who would have invaded the whole european continent if the hungarians wouldn't have stopped them there. Unfortunatelly in these invader wars a lot of hungarians died so when an occupation force left hungarians had to invite people from other nationality lived in the neighborhood to fill up the population. After every invading wars. In this way for the last century in the area of the hungarian kingdom lived not just hungarians but other invited different nations as well.

13:00 Dual citizenship has never been recognized in Ukraine. If anything, there are talks about implementing it.

I think that Hungarians themselves understand, that in Trianon the main objektive was to establish the new borders as defendable and therefore stable in most cases ( along rivers, mountains etc.). It was logical after the WWI. But if we look at the problem just from the angle of population topography, yes, there is nothing to disagree with.

When the Turks left the Habsburg used the political and power vacum and took over Hungary. It was the Habsburgs who really ruled. Also wasnt fair how the ww1 ended for us Hungarians. Means deciding the borders without actually knowing the different populations there. On the other side, yes, those territories where not Hungarians lived, was a valid decision to get them. And please dont forget that we share this planet, its not ours, so lets stay good neighbours and be happy for the fact that Europe is so colorful.

0:45 How do you mean the 6%? What does the x mean?

Short answer: Hungarians were on the losing side in both World Wars.

I feel like they should have at the very least been allowed to keep the border areas that had a large Hungarian majority. Maybe not go so far as to include Transylvania (looking at you Mr moustache) but the border areas with a majority Hungarian population for sure. May have even been enough to keep them out of WW2.

I'm a little confused by the Portugal reference in the beginning. If referencing a countries population it should be by citizens right? Not just heritage? So I assume you're saying that the Portuguese people in France Luxembourg and Switzerland your referencing still hold Portuguese citizenship. This Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia, do they hold Hungarian citizenship? Also back to the Portugal reference I think it should be taken into account if they have plans to go back to Portugal, like if it's temporary? Because if they're moving to France to live and work and intend to stay there then they no longer contribute to Portuguese population whereas if they have like a 5 or 10 year plan to work there then return to Portugal then yes they are still a part of the population

Oh boy this will be a fun comment section

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Hungarian here. 90% of Hungarians think that taking away so much territory was very unfair and exaggerated (-67%), but 90% of Hungarians also think that it should be left as it is for the sake of peace. Of course, there are extremists in every country who can be presented in the media in neighbouring countries, making it seem as if the majority of Hungarians are like them. But the vast majority think that, although this was unfair, if the Hungarians are treated well by the surrounding countries, then in the end this is not such a serious issue within the European Union. There is good relations between ordinary people in these regions. The conflicts are rare. Perhaps only in Transylvania would an autonomous Hungarian territory be justified, because there are a large number (1 million) of Hungarians living in a block. But autonomy is all nothing more is necessary. Unfortunately, the current Hungarian mafia government is trying to get extremist votes and incite people against each other, but most Hungarians don't like this troublemaking.

Excuse the nosiness, but the beginning sentence was really bothering me and I couldn't let it pass: "Many countries don't contain their entire population" is a disturbingly incorrect statement that would probably cause a lot of unnecessary dispute among ethnic groups. The entire population of a country is always inside the country, when the population moves, it automatically becomes part of the other countries population. Population = a group of people inhabiting a certain area. The population of Hungary doesn't only consist of ethnic Hungarians, and not every ethnic Hungarian make up the population of modern day Hungary. You can talk about "inhabitants" who are not always present in their country of origin (travellers, tourists etc.). Inhabitant = a person living in a certain area. The inhabitants of Hungary = the population of Hungary. You can also talk about "ethnic groups" which are historically, culturally (and probably also linguistically) connected groups of people. Every ethnic Hungarian =/= population of modern day Hungary. So it would be most correct to say "there are many ethnic groups the members of which are not the inhabitants or citizens of the country where the said ethnic group is among the constituent people".

It is more correct to call it Dictate of Trianon, because when a country is not invited to a peace congress, nobody asks about her points of views, thus nobody is interested about her opinions of where the borders should stretch, and at the end they just hand her over the order about which territories they took from her, and force her to sign it, is called a dictate. It resembled with the Dictate of Vienna or the partitions of Poland. This is why it is not a treaty. Secondly it is wrong to call Hungary as the part of the Central Powers in the WW1, because it was not a free country, but a part of an empire. Yes, it had its own autonomy, but regarding the external and war policy, it was totally subdued to Austria. The Hungarian prime minister, after first, opposing the entering in the war, signed it indeed, but if he would have refused it, this would not be ended with Hungary not entering the war, but with his deposition by Vienna, and putting in his place somebody who was agreeing with the war. So Hungary had not a status of a free country which could decide to enter or not in the war. So it was not part of the Central Powers. In the same way as we cannot say that Scotland or Texas in their own, were parts of the Entente. So in this way too Trianon was illegal, because it shows her equally guilty of the war as Austria, Germany or Bulgaria. And it would be very interesting a video about the ethnic history of the Carpathian Basin, and why in 1918 the Romanians, Serbians, Slovakians were a majority in such big portions of the Kingdom of Hungary. Recent researches have shown that before the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the Hungarians were 2/3s of the population, while after the Ottomans were sent out of Hungary in 1690, they remained only 1/3. As well, before the Mongolian invasion of 1241, the Hungarians were procentually even more numerous. In these big catastrophies of the Hungarian history, the Hungarians, who lived in the lowlands, suffered the most of the attacks of the enemy, died the most, and in their place ethnicities from other regions and countries came and became majorities. This is why the ethnic situation in Hungary of 1918 was how it was.

Good video congratulations. This is the main root and reason, why Hungarians at least rural Hungarians and a great part of the society have not the best relationship with the EU and the West. That in modern Europe, there are nationality problems like this... .it is a shame... These "European" (Balkan and honestly medieval) countries deny the right for self determination for people having an absolute majority in a region. In general I think all the post Little Entente countries are imperialistic in this manner. All Western values are denied when they ignore the problems of the Hungarian nationality. But same is true for Poles and Romanians in Ukraine, or does not even mention the Balkan. The only good thing Hungarians can do is fight for justice, human rights and don't get into the mud, what the Balkan nations create. Hungary many time failed... But the only way if Hungarians despite this, show a better way and stoically stay above the hate, insecurity, and barbarism what our neighbors quite often enforce. Orbán is not a good solution for this, it is the Balkan way.

Slovakia and Hungary have an okay relation, however the people dont that much. Slovaks still view Hungarians as "the ones that still want our territory" orban recently wore a scarf with the old Hungarian borders where Slovakia was non existent, proving that they still havent quite moved one from the loss

So what is the link with the Finnish & Hungarian language? Not alike but linked. Why?

Everybody expects Romanians and Hungarians to have terrible relations, meanwhile me, a Romanian, is out drinking every weekend with my Hungarian best friend from Romania

As a Polish i never understood why Hungarians werent deported like we were after ww2

There are about a 100,000 people with the last name "Horvat" in Hungary, it's an old name for Croats during the middle ages and it's very similar to what we use today - Hrvat. If Hungarians want to claim Hungarians outside of the country, we want to claim all areas within Hungary that are predominanly minority 😊

Very good documentation. And you pointed very good that the split out regions were and are inhabited in majority NOT by hungarians.

As long as I know, why we (Slovakia) got such a big part of land with ethnical Hungarians was - because of the infrastructure. Old Hungarian kingdom made Budapest a centre of the kingdom, so all the roads and railways went from borders to the Budapest. So if the Trianon threaty wouldn't give us this land, we wouldn't have continuous connection between west and east. And to build new roads and railways, after so many problems after finished war - would take astronomical costs. Especially, when 80% of Slovakia is covered by mountains. Yes, I (as Slovak) also think, it was not fair to Hungarians to draw borders between and split Hungarian nation. But on the other hand, Hungarians were in that time considered very agresive and dangerous (because of aliance with Germany and very brutal Magaryzation programs). I guess, if it would happend today, Hungary would get whole territory, where are living ethnical Hungarians. Dispite of all extrem nationalists on both sides of the border, I wish just a peaceful and respectsful relationships with the Hungarians (as well as with all other nations and minorities). If we will have good relationships, we can prosper all 👍 Greetings to my Hungarian friends 😉👍

From what i know, Slovakia has lifted the dual citizenship restrictions in 2023

When we start this discussion Slovak and Hungarian my friend from Turkey is loughing. It was Turkey my friends.

11:18 The way you self-censored this is hilarious lol

Yeah it was unfair, sure, but it doesn't really matter now. I once crossed the hungarian-slovakian border without even noticing and I'm palanning on going to a hungarian speaking university in Romania. We're learning to live alongide eachother in peace. It's a process for sure, but we're getting there.🙂

Keep in mind: Hungary didn't really have a chance to "chose" their allies. In the second world war Hungary was forced to help Germany (among many other nations), although wanted to stay neutral. The leader of Hungary at the time was even threatened that germany would kill his kidnapped son if they chose otherwise.

11:25...ahhhh below Florida a certain word is blurred next to 'indeoendent'

Here a real smart questions.Do you know from where hungarians have come to europe? And do you know who has lived in hungary before hungarians?

Some context kind of missing from this video on entente thinking on Hungary: 1. Hungary had a reputation, and not a good one. Hungary was notorious as one of the last places in Europe to abolish feudal land ownership, only completing the process around 1850, with the largely Hungarian land owners maintaining effective control of most of the land even outside of ethnically Hungarian land. This combined extremely poorly with both widely circulated and respected protests against Magyarization policies by minority leaders in Hungary as well as the reputation of the kingdom of Hungary as torpedoing proposals to ease ethnic tensions by granting greater autonomy or rights to other minorities. This meant Hungary was generally perceived by most of Europe as oppressive towards minorities and as impoverishing it's peoples, this sometimes took on explicitly racist tones casting the Hungarians as the oriental barbarian horde incapable of true civilization, sometimes it remained pointed at the land owning class who genuinely did not get along well with peasants, even ethnic Hungarian ones, and did often resist aspects of industrial development. 2. The maps of the area where actually kind of a problem (I think it was a french? delegate that even has a little rant about them recorded). Every country and people that had an interest in the region had extensive maps, all of which both would give them the most land, people, etc. and of course contradicted everyone else's maps. This made it very difficult to reasonable determine where lines should be drawn. Especially since running new surveys and holding plebiscites was impractical as... 3. The actual region was in chaos, violent chaos. The Hapsburg empire was not dissolved by the entente, it disintegrated under internal uprisings. The Hungarian military had started to break away from the Imperial military to focus on Hungarian interests, and it was fighting the Romanian, Czechoslovakian and Yugoslav forces. This fighting is what would ultimately be pivotal in setting the actual lines so unfavorably against Hungary. Not only where all the forces partitioning Hungary members of the entente (the Czechoslovak's had even had there legion), it was unclear if they would actually listen if the big powers told them withdraw without using military force, force that only France, who was in favor of a weak Hungary, had any willingness to provide in the region. This was capped of by a communist revolution promising to destroy the landholders, stop the territorial dissolution, and link up with the Russian bolsheviks. Given that this was not a position that featured a willingness to give up anything, the entente hated communism, and the entente had sent forces to actively fight the bolsheviks in Russia, it should not be surprising that any claim someone could take with force of arms was ultimately legitimized by Trianon. As a side note the Slovaks generally supported a Czechoslovakia. This was also generally true of the Slavic areas that joined Yugoslavia. Both where in fact generally under control of the local uprising in favor of the concepts, trying to carve back up would probably have been a bigger violation of self determination, especially given how famously well that has gone in former Yugoslavia.

Thx for making videos about Hungary, finally some representation!

Hungary not just lost their people and territories but rich mines, skiable mountains and contact to the Mediterrian sea (tourist and transport places), road network, etc. That was a cruel decision back in time while Hungary wanted to separate from Austria in 1848-49 who was one of the real actor in the first ww.

Because WWI happened.

Why Spanish is Miami's main language?

the truth is that many Albanians live in other countries, but a large percentage live in the border countries that Albania shares a border with.

Actually there a at least 1-2 million people of Hungarian origin living all over the world.

Hungary was so big

How about you do a video on romanians in hungary serbia and ukraine next?

There are quite a few Portuguese people in South Africa. My cousin is half Portuguese.

Some hungarians wrote their opinions. If any state would be reduced to 1/3 part of it, not mentioning the terror against the country and the hungarian minority since 1920, if it was England Italy the US or other states, it would be the biggest tragedy for them. France, England or Germany started world wars for much less causes, Germany lost only 13% lands ... They say not hungarians lived there but its not true, every 3rd person was hungarian and almost everybody was pro hungarian who was integrated into hungary , every 2nd person was hungarian or german, not mentioning other strongly pro hungarian minorities. Hungary was a very old state, it had similar borders 1000 years before too. It was just as bad as it would have been for other states and even worse.

Because Slovakia and Romania are hungry for some Hungarians.

In Slovakia the numbers are more like 4 to 6% and that is due that a large group of roma (gypsy) people living in these regions identifying themselves as Hungarians rather then Roma.

LOOKING FORWARD TO WATCH YOUR VIDEO ABOUT MAGYARIZATION. Magyarization was perceived by other ethnic groups, such as the Romanians, Slovaks, Ruthenians (Rusyns), Croats, Serbs, and others, as aggression or active discrimination, especially in areas where they formed the majority of the population. The radical liberal revolutionary Lajos Kossuth advocated for rapid Magyarization, pleading in the early 1840s in the newspaper Pesti Hírlap, "Let us hurry, let us hurry to Magyarize the Croats, the Romanians, and the Saxons, for otherwise we shall perish." Kossuth stressed that Hungarian had to be the exclusive language in public life, writing in 1842 that "in one country it is impossible to speak in a hundred different languages. There must be one language, and in Hungary, this must be Hungarian. The Hungarian national awakening had the lasting effect of triggering similar national revivals among the Slovak, Romanian, Serbian, and Croatian minorities in Hungary and Transylvania, who felt threatened by both German and Hungarian cultural hegemony. These revivals would blossom into nationalist movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contribute to Austria-Hungary's collapse in 1918... For a long time, the number of non-Hungarians that lived in the Kingdom of Hungary was much larger than the number of ethnic Hungarians. According to the 1787 data, the population of the Kingdom of Hungary numbered 2,322,000 Hungarians (29%) and 5,681,000 non-Hungarians (71%). In 1809, the population numbered 3,000,000 Hungarians (30%) and 7,000,000 non-Hungarians (70%). An increasingly intense Magyarization policy was implemented after 1867... "The Hungarian secondary school is like a huge machine, at one end of which the Slovak youths are thrown in by the hundreds, and at the other end of which they come out as Magyars." - Béla Grünwald, adviser to Count Kálmán Tisza, Hungarian prime minister from 1875 to 1890 (Source: Wikipedia)

Bro cant yall stop reminding me of trianon for 5 seconds?

Thanks for the vid but there is a big misunderstanding about the empire. The empire didnt even existed at the end of the war. Croatia was not a short story, it was part of Hungary for 800 years. Hungary is one of the oldest countries in Europe... A dont think Slovenia ever existed before 1918... The 14 points were not official policy after the war anymore. I dont know which serbian land was ruled by hungary (!) or austria before the war. Self determination was not important, no ethnic groups had self determination, they were not even asked. The goal was to weaken Hungary bc they thought hungary would be an ally of Germany in wwii and the new monster states would be the enemies of Germany.

Why u didnt told about hungars in ukraine

They also did tak half our territories away. Alliance from West he he Good luck from Poland 🇵🇱

2:26 It's funny how inscription “Germany“ is all over Czechia.

3:20 "now we can understand why there were and are so many Hungarian people there, it was territory for a pretty long time" This is very poorly worded and doesn't reflect reality. It wasn't territory of Hungarian people but territory belonging to Hungarian Kingdom (Hungarian Kings weren't for very long time even ethnic Hungarians btw) and lands itself was divided between the crown (land belonging directly to the king), the nobility (which was mostly Hungarian but also locals) and the church. Land itself was however settled by non-Hungarians (in Slovakia Slovaks and Germans) except for parts where population was mixed which are and always were only regions directly bordering the core of the Hungarian Kingdom. Your wording suggest that ethnic Hungarians used to live all over the place until they were displaced by present day people.

And that's why Hungary borders itself. And we so called "külhoni magyarok" (those who live in the Carpathian basin outside of Hungary) always say that we didn't cross any border. The border crossed us.

Thank you for talking about my country! Love from a British Hungarian! 🇬🇧🇭🇺