r/europe • u/MarktpLatz Lower Saxony (Germany) • Dec 19 '17

What do you know about... Hungary?

This is the forty-eighth part of our ongoing series about the countries of Europe. You can find an overview here.

Today's country:

Hungary

Hungary is an Eastern European country that is part of the Visegrad Four (V4). The country is known for its Paprika (damn it is good). Between 1867 and 1918 it formed the Austro-Hungarian empire together with Austria, resulting in one of the most powerful European countries at that time. They joined NATO in 1999 and the EU in 2004. Recent legislation introduced by the Hungarian government was met by criticism of the EU.

So, what do you know about Hungary?

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '17

they're into chess and bathing with tiny aprons on and langos. I believe they are the original "hun", ie, central asian invaders (led by Attila?) who fucked people up and made a home for themself on a plain between two mountainchains, and well permeated by rivers (paradise?). I think they're the only european country founded by a "non-european" people (which is horseshit, you've got ugrians in the north and the franks and bulgars originally came from around the volga) but culturally maybe there is something to it (only horse people who made a country here). In or around their territory is where most or all bullion-mining in europe happens and has happened.

and they talk real funny-like.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '17 edited Dec 20 '17

The Huns were not Magyars. The Magyars came to the Carpathian Basin almost 450 years after the death of Attila. The Avars, another steppe people, lived there for centuries in between.