#hungarians

Ethnic Hungarians engage in weaving; from the Szék (Sic) region of Transylvania, Romania - Péter Korniss

The Hungarians, or Magyars, are the people most closely associated with Hungary, though substantial Hungarian communities also live in Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Croatia, and Serbia; their own name for the country, Magyarország, reflects the central place of Magyar identity in their national history. They are unusual in Europe because their language is not Indo-European but belongs to the Uralic family, specifically the Finno-Ugric/Ugric branch, and it has long been written in a modified Latin alphabet; its grammar is strongly agglutinative, with extensive suffixing, vowel harmony, and a sound system and morphology that remain recognizably Uralic despite heavy borrowing from Iranian, Turkic, Slavic, Latin, German, and other languages over centuries of contact. Historically, the proto-Hungarians are described as a blend of Ugric and Turkic elements who moved from the eastern steppe world into the Carpathian Basin by the late ninth century, where they established a durable polity that became one of Europe’s long-lasting states; after Christianization, they were drawn into Latin Christendom, but later their region became a frontier zone shaped by repeated invasions, Ottoman occupation, Habsburg rule, and the territorial losses after World War I, all of which deeply influenced Hungarian collective memory and identity. Culturally, Hungarians have maintained a strong sense of distinctiveness through art, music, literature, and folk traditions such as embroidery and ceramics, while modern Hungarian culture remains strongly centered on Budapest and marked by a long tradition of scholarship, science, and artistic achievement that has also extended into a large diaspora abroad.

Imre Ámos was a Jewish artist born in Nagykálló, Hungary, on December 7th, 1907. He was killed in a concentration camp in Germany (Ohrdruf concentration camp, most likely) in 1944. May he rest in peace. ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.

if you are interested in any of these feel free to follow! im off from school so enjoy my random yells into the void, thats about all i have to offer

World Championships Rio 2025 | Photographer: Anna Kull [source]