Kingdom of Hungary
Names
Magyar Kiralysag (hu)
Regnum Hungariae (la)
Konigreich Ungarn (de)
FlagCoat of arms
Motto
Regnum Mariae Patrona Hungariae [1]
"Kingdom of Mary, the Patron of Hungary"
Anthem
HimnuszRoyal anthem
God save, God protect Our Emperor, Our Country!
Kingdom of Hungary ("Ungarn") within Austria-Hungary, 1899.
CapitalBudapest
Historical capitals:
Budaa
Pressburg (1536?1783)
Debrecen (1849)
Esztergom (10th to mid-13th century)
LanguagesOfficial languages:
Latin
(1000?1784; 1790?1844)
German
(1784?1790; 1849?1867)
Hungarian
(1836?1849; 1867?)Other spoken languages:
Romanian, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, Serbian, Italian, Ruthenian
ReligionRoman Catholic,[2] Calvinism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholic, Unitarianism, Judaism
GovernmentMonarchy
Monarch
- 1000?1038Stephen I
- 1920?1944Regent Miklos Horthy
Palatine
- 1009?1038Samuel Aba
- 1847?1848Stephen Francis Victor
Prime Minister
- 1848Lajos Batthyany
- 1945?1946Zoltan Tildy
LegislatureDiet (from the 1290s)
- Upper houseHouse of Magnates
(1867?1918; 1926?1945)
- Lower houseHouse of Representatives
(1867?1918; 1927?1945)
Historical era2nd millennium
- Coronation of
Stephen I25 December 1000
- Ottoman occupation
of Buda29 August 1541
- Hungarian Revolution15 March 1848
- 1867 Compromise20 March 1867
- Treaty of Trianon4 June 1920
- Monarchy abolished1 February 1946
Area
- 1910[3]325,411 km2 (125,642 sq mi)
- 1930[4]93,073 km2 (35,936 sq mi)
- 1941[5]172,149 km2 (66,467 sq mi)
Population
- 1711[3] est.3,000,000
- 1790[3] est.8,000,000
- 1910[3] est.20,886,487
Density64.2 /km2 (166.2 /sq mi)
- 1930[4] est.8,688,319
Density93.3 /km2 (241.8 /sq mi)
- 1941[5] est.14,669,100
Density85.2 /km2 (220.7 /sq mi)
CurrencyFlorentinus (1325)
Thaler
Florin (1754?1867)
Forint (1867?1892)
Korona (1892?1918)
Korona (1919?1926)
Peng? (1927?1946)
Adopeng? (1946)
Today part of Austria
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Ukraine
a.First became capital in 1361.
The Kingdom of Hungary was a multilingual, multiethnic and (as the meaning from the 19th century) multinational[6] country in Central Europe covering what is today Hungary, Slovakia, Transylvania (now part of Romania), Carpathian Ruthenia (now part of Ukraine), Vojvodina (now part of Serbia), Burgenland (now part of Austria), and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders.