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HISTORY

Mainly in the early ages people of nomadic tribes would settle in Hungary. Magyar group was the Magyars. They lived there in the 8th century. In 955 the Germans forced them into an alliance with the holy empire. Hungary was t the time not an actual country. It became a country when the Magyar prince named Stephen was crowned 'Christian King' Stephen I, he then was able to make Hungary an actual country.
The House of Árpád ruled Hungary for a long while but the fight for the thrown made hungry less strong s it became when the house of arpad ended. The new rulers made Hungary become strong but when one of the best rulers of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus, died the ruler after him could not keep the country under control and ended up being concord by the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Mohács. The Turks ruled Hungary until they finally pushed them out in 1699.but the Hungarians ended up becoming a province of the Austrian Habsburg Empire.
Even though that happened there economy and cultural life became better. In 1849, under the rebel leadership of Lajos Kossuth, Hungary declared full independence and the dethronement of the Habsburgs,butit was no use because the Turks forced them back under
Their rule as a province of turkey. In the end turkey and Hungary made the Compromise of 1867, which created the Dual Monarchy of Austria the empire and Hungary the kingdom. This ended up being good for Hungary as that Hungary began to flourish once more.
In World War 1 the dual monarchy fought along side with germany.fter the war hungry became a republic. Communists tried to make Hungary a communist country but 5 months later gave up because Romania sent in troops to stop it. In 1920, the Allies drew up a postwar settlement under the Treaty of Trianon that reduced Hungary size. Hungary asked for the help of Germany and Italy to get back its land, but they ended up loosing in World War 2.
In 1947 the votes were rigged to the new ruler of Hungary. The Hungarians ended up with the rule of communists. Then in the 1956 uprising, an anti-Soviet revolution left thousands dead. That was the worst time in Hungarian history then János Kádár began a programme of 'goulash' (consumer-oriented) Communism. Hungary ended up being the most developed and richest nations in the area in the 1970s. But janos created aot of debt in the economy so he was kicked out of office in 1988. . then Hungary became the republic of Hungary in 1989 In April 1999, Hungary joined NATO and went about the final preparations for its entry into the European Union. They took place in 2004 after an April 2003 plebiscite in which Hungarians approved the country's entry into an enlarged EU.
In August 2004 Prime Minister Medgyessy was forced into resigning. The formed minister of sport Ferenc Gyurcsany replaced him.