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'''Magyarization''' (also "Magyarisation", "Hungarisation", "Hungarization", "Hungarianization", "Hungarianisation") is a designator applied to a number of ethnic [[Cultural assimilation|assimilation]] policies implemented by various [[Hungary|Hungarian]] authorities in the 19th century and at the beginning of 20th century. These policies aimed at imposing or maintaining the dominance of [[Hungarian language]] and culture in Hungarian-ruled regions by encouraging or compelling people of other ethnic groups to adopt the Hungarian language and culture, and to develop a Hungarian identity.
However, most Magyarization was a direct result of [[urbanization]] and [[industrialization]]<ref name=Britannica>{{cite encyclopedia |last= |first= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |title=Hungary - Social and economic developments |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-34807/Hungary#411318.hook |accessdate=2008-05-20 |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |date=2008 |year= |month= |publisher= |volume= |location= |id= |isbn= |doi= |pages= |quote= }}</ref>. The [[linguistic]] [[frontier]]s had not shifted significantly from the line on which they had stabilized a century earlier<ref name=Britannica/>.
== Origin of the term ==
The term generally applies to the policies that were enforced{{Fact|date=February 2007}} in the [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungarian part]] of [[Austria-Hungary]] in the 19th century and early 20th century, especially after the [[Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867]]<ref name=Britannica/>, and in particular after the rise in 1871 of the Count [[Menyhért Lónyay]] as head of the Hungarian government.<ref>Bideleux and Jeffries, 1998, p. 363.</ref> The idea owes its existence to [[the Enlightenment]] due to which the 19th century saw the emergence of nation-states in many places in Europe (France, Italy, Germany). In its course large areas were culturally and linguistically homogenized (or at least attempts were made to make them so). The term is also used for similar yet more far-reaching policies, which were applied by the Hungarian authorities in [[Northern Transylvania]] and [[Bačka]] during [[World War II]], which in some cases led to egregious atrocities.{{Fact|date=February 2007}}
When referring to personal and geographic names, Magyarization stands for the replacement of an originally non-Hungarian name with a Hungarian one. For instance, the Romanian name "Ion Negru" would become "János Fekete", or the Slavic name "Novo Selo" would become "Újfalu".
=== Magyarization in broader sense ===
As is often the case with policies intended to forge or bolster national identity in a state, Magyarization was perceived by other ethnic groups such as the [[Romanians]], [[Slovaks]], [[Serbs]], [[Croats]], etc., as aggression or active discrimination, especially where they formed the majority of the population over large areas (for instance, Romanians were a majority in eastern Hungary, especially in [[Transylvania]]).
Magyarization can also refer to an identity shift, which would compel someone to identify with the [[Magyars|Hungarian]] ethnicity, while having no Hungarian ancestors. For instance, [[Sándor Petőfi]] was a Hungarian of mixed [[Serbs|Serb]]-Slovak descent.<ref>[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/petofi.htm Sándor Petõfi (1823-1849?)], 2003, on kirjasto.sci.fi. Accessed [[12 March]] [[2007]].</ref> From the Hungarian point of view, historically notable personalities that came from Magyarized families were Hungarian.
== Magyarization in the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary ==
The term Magyarization is usually used in regards to the national policies implemented by the government of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]], which was part of the Habsburg Empire. The onset of this process dates to the late 18th century <ref>Pástor, Zoltán, ''Dejiny Slovenska: Vybrané kapitoly''. Banská Bystrica: Univerzita Mateja Bela. 2000</ref> and was intensified after the [[Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867]], which increased the power of the Hungarian government within the newly formed [[Austria-Hungary]]. <ref>Bideleux and Jeffries, 1998, p. 363.</ref>
The Kingdom of Hungary (also called [[Transleithania]] since 1867 {{Fact|date=October 2007}}) was a multi-ethnic country inhabited by [[Magyars]], [[Romanians]], [[Croats]], [[Germans]], [[Slovaks]], [[Serbs]], [[Slovenes]], [[Rusyns]], [[Jew]]s, [[Roma people|Roma]] and other ethnicities. According to the 1910 census, Hungarians represented the largest ethnic group with 54.4% of the total population (without [[Croatia-Slavonia]]), Romanians 16.1%, Slovaks 10.7%, and Germans 10.4%. This figure is contested by some historians, for the census did not count "ethnicity", but native language (as well as "the most often spoken language", which led to manipulations with census results<ref>[[A. J. P. Taylor]], ''The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918'', 1948. (Serbian translation: A. Dž. P. Tejlor, ''Habzburška Monarhija 1809-1918'', Belgrade, 2001.)</ref>) and the religion. For instance, large numbers of Jews (who sought integration) declared Hungarian as their native language and were, accordingly, counted as Hungarians (The percent of Jews in 1910 census was 5%, thus without Jews, the percent of Hungarians would drop from 54% to 50%). We have to point out also that mainly because of large numbers of secular and in the world unique [[Neolog Judaism|Neolog]] Jews <ref>Michael Riff, ''The Face of Survival: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Past and Present'', Valentine Mitchell, London, 1992, ISBN 0-85303-220-3.
</ref> some of them had little desire to be declared a national minority like in other cultures. However, Jews in Hungary appreciated the emancipation in Hungary at a time when antisemitic laws were still applied in Russia and Romania. Large minorities were concentrated in various regions of the kingdom, where they formed significant majorities. In [[Transylvania]] proper (1876 borders), the 1910 census finds 55.08% Romanian-speakers, 34.2% Hungarian-speakers, and 8.71% German-speakers. In the north of the Kingdom, Slovaks and Ruthenians formed an ethnic majority also, in the southern regions the majority were South Slavic Croats, Serbs and Slovenes and in the western regions the majority were Germans.
The process of Magyarization did not succeed in imposing the Hungarian language as the most used language in all territories in the Kingdom of Hungary. In fact the profoundly multinational character of historic Transylvania was reflected in the fact that during the fifty years of the dual monarchy, the spread of Hungarian as the second language remained limited. In 1880, 5.7 percent of the non-Hungarian population, or 109,190 people, claimed to have a knowledge of the Hungarian language; the proportion rose to 11 percent (183,508) in 1900, and to 15.2 percent (266,863) in 1910. These figures reveal the reality of a bygone era, one in which millions of people could conduct their lives without speaking the state's official language.<ref>[http://mek.oszk.hu/03400/03407/html/404.html Religious Denominations and Nationalities<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The policies of Magyarization aimed to make the fluency in Hungarian language a requirement for access to basic government services such as local administration, education, and justice.
Between 1850 and 1910 the ethnic Hungarian population increased by 106.7%, while the increase of other ethnic groups was far slower: Serbians and Croatians 38.2%, Romanians 31.4% and Slovaks 10.7%.<ref>[http://www.univie.ac.at/igl.geschichte/vocelka/SS2002/vo_ss2002_1006.htm IGL - SS 2002 - ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Karl Vocelka - VO<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
According to census data, the Hungarian population of Transylvania increased from 24.9% in [[1869]] to 31.6% in [[1910]]. In the same time, the percentage of Romanian population decreased from 59.0% to 53.8% and the percentage of German population decreased from 11.9% to 10.7%. Changes were more significant in cities with predominantly German and Romanian population. For example, the percentage of Hungarian population increased in [[Braşov]] from 13.4% in [[1850]] to 43.43% in [[1910]], meanwhile the Romanian population decreased from 40% to 28.71% and the German population from 40.8% to 26.41%.
===State policy and ethnic relations===
The first Hungarian government after the [[Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867]], the 1867–1871 [[liberalism|liberal]] regime led by Count [[Gyula Andrássy]] and sustained by [[Ferenc Deák]] and his followers, passed the 1868 Nationality Act, that declared "all citizens of Hungary form, politically, one nation, the indivisible unitary Hungarian nation (''nemzet''), of which every citizen of the country, whatever his personal nationality (''nemzetiség''), is a member equal in rights." The Education Act, passed the same year, shared this view as the Magyars simply being ''primus inter pares'' ("first among equals"). At this time ethnic minorities "de jure" had a great deal of cultural and linguistic autonomy, including in education, religion, and local government.<ref>Bideleux and Jeffries, 1998, p. 362–363.</ref>
However, after education minister Baron József Eötvös died in 1871, and in Andrassy became imperial foreign minister, Deak withdrew from active politics and [[Menyhért Lónyay]] became the Hungarian prime minister. He became steadily more allied with the Magyar gentry, and the notion of a Hungarian political nation increasingly became one of a Magyar nation. "[A]ny political or social movement which challenged the hegemonic position of the Magyar ruling classes was liable to be repressed or charged with 'treason'…, 'libel' or 'incitement of national hatred'. This was to be the fate of various [[Slovaks|Slovak]], [[South Slavs|South Slav]] [e.g. [[Serbs|Serb]]], [[Romanians|Romanian]] and [[Ruthenes|Ruthene]] cultural societies and nationalist parties from 1876 onward…"<ref>Bideleux and Jeffries, 1998, p. 363–364.</ref> All of this only intensified after 1875, with the rise of [[Kálmán Tisza]].<ref>Bideleux and Jeffries, 1998, p. 364.</ref>
The political leaders of non-Hungarian ethnic groups claimed that the Kingdom of Hungary is a country of several nations, not only of Hungarians, and asked for recognition of their collective rights{{Fact|date=February 2007}}.
For a long time, number of non-Hungarians that lived in the Kingdom of Hungary was much larger than a 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%). As an increasingly intense Magyarization policy was implemented after 1867,<ref>Bideleux and Jeffries, 1998, p. 362–364.</ref> the ethnic relations changed in favour of Hungarians: according to the 1900 census, number of Hungarian language speakers in the Kingdom was 8,500,000 (51%), while number of speakers of other languages was 8,100,000 (49%). In 1910 census, number of Hungarian speakers was 9,944,628 (54.4%), while number of speakers of other languages was 8,319,905 (45.6%).{{Fact|date=February 2007}}
Although in [[Slovaks|Slovak]], [[Romanians|Romanian]] and [[Serbs|Serbian]] history writing administrative and often repressive Magyarization is usually singled out as the main factor accountable for the dramatic change in the ethnic composition of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]] in the 19th century, it should be noted that spontaneous assimilation was an important factor in some areas yet not prevailing in general. In this regard, it must be pointed out that large territories of central and southern Kingdom of Hungary lost their previous, predominantly Magyar population during the numerous wars fought by the [[Habsburg]] and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] empires in the 16th and 17th centuries. These empty lands were repopulated, by administrative measures adopted by the Vienna Court especially during the 18th century, by Hungarians and Slovaks from the northern part of the Kingdom that avoided the devastation (see also [[Royal Hungary]]), Swabians, Serbs (Serbs were majority in most southern parts of the Pannonian Plain during Ottoman rule, i.e. before those Habsburg administrative measures), Croats and Romanians. The result of this migration was that on a large swath of land, roughly between [[Kecskemét]] and the southern border areas, various ethnic groups lived side by side (this ethnic heterogeneity is preserved until today in certain parts of [[Vojvodina]], [[Bačka]] and [[Banat]]). After 1867, Hungarian became the [[lingua franca]] on this territory in the interaction between ethnic communities, and individuals who were born in mixed marriages between two non-Magyars often grew a full-fledged allegiance to the Hungarian nation. The best-known example is [[Sándor Petőfi]], Hungarian national poet born from a Serbian-Slovak marriage which contradicts a bit the right wing nature of Magyarization. A non-German could have never been a national poet in [[Nazi Germany]]. Of course Since Latin was the official language until 1842 and the country was directly governed from Vienna (which excluded any large-scale governmental assimilation policy from the Hungarian side before the [[Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867]], the factor of spontaneous assimilation should be given due weight in any analysis relating to the demographic tendencies of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]] in the early 19th century, which however doesn't apply to the second part of the 19th century, when self-determination movements of minorities were repressed more vigorously.
===Violent oppression===
Although the policy of Magyarization was mainly pursued in the form of discrimination (see the sections below), the measures were backed by the state police and secret police{{Fact|date=February 2007}} and the government sometimes resorted to open violence. For example, many Slovak intellectuals and activists (such as [[Janko Kráľ]]) were imprisoned or even sentenced to death during the [[Revolutions of 1848 in Hungary|revolution in 1848]].<ref>''Encyklopédia spisovateľov Slovenska''. Bratislava: Obzor, 1984.</ref> One of the incidents that shocked European public opinion<ref name='holec'>{{cite book | last = Holec | first = Roman | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Tragédia v Černovej a slovenská spoločnosť | publisher = Matica slovenská | date= 1997 | location = Martin | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = }}</ref> was the [[Černová tragedy]] when 15 people were killed and 52 injured in 1907. An eye witness, who was 9 years old at the time, characterized shooters as "Hungarian armed gendarmes" and said that the underofficer Pereszlényi (who did not order the shooting itself) was Hungarian and did not speak Slovak. According to the same source, the unit was threatened and later attacked by the mob throwing stones at them, after Pereszlényi repeatedly ordered the [[coach (carriage)|coaches]] to advance through the mass of people. <ref>http://www.petericepudding.com/hlinka3.htm Detailed description of the [[Černová tragedy]] by an eye witness</ref><ref name='holec'/> The case being a proof for the violence of Magyarization is disputed, partly because the sergeant who ordered the shooting and all the shooters were [[ethnic]] [[Slovak people|Slovak]] and partly because of the controversial figure of [[Andrej Hlinka]]<ref>[http://www.szombat.org/ujhirek/1031_hlinkapolitika_egyszerfennegyszerlenn_atortenelemsulya.htm Hungarian Jewish newspaper about the controversial Cernova event, Hlinka's antisemitic and racist views] in Hungarian</ref>.
[[Image:15pkr0129.jpg|thumb|320px|This is a Austro-Hungarian bill from 1849, before the main period of Magyarization. Note the multilingual inscriptions. Later, all languages except German and Hungarian were removed from banknotes.<ref>http://bankovky.7x.cz/image/3191010 bi-lingual austro-hungarian banknote</ref>]]
===Education===
Schools funded by churches and communes had the right to provide education in minority languages. These church-funded schools, however, were mostly founded before 1867, that is, in different socio-political circumstances. Clause 38 of the 1868 law about nationalities of the Kingdom of Hungary, determined that church-funded schools teaching in minority languages could be closed and replaced with commune-funded schools sponsored by the government.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} In practice, the majority of students in commune-funded schools who were native speakers of minority languages were instructed exclusively in Hungarian. Moreover, the number of minority-language schools was steadily decreasing: in the period between 1880 and 1913, when the number of Hungarian-only schools almost doubled, the number of minority language-schools almost halved.<ref name="Romsics">Romsics, Ignác. ''Magyarország története a huszadik században'' ("A History of Hungary in the 20th Century"), p. 85-86.</ref> Countless personal names were Magyarized in a short period of time, often forcibly or unwillingly.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} Nonetheless, Transylvanian Romanians had more Romanian-language schools under Hungarian rule than there were in the Romanian Kingdom itself. Thus, for example, in 1880, in Hungary there were 2,756 schools teaching exclusively in the Romanian language, while in the Kingdom of Romania there were only 2,505.<ref name="Raffay">Raffay Ernő: A vajdaságoktól a birodalomig-Az újkori Románia története = From voivodates to the empire-History of modern Romania, JATE Kiadó, Szeged, 1989)</ref>
The effect of Magyarization on the education system in Hungary was very significant, as can be seen from the official statistics submitted by the Hungarian government to the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]]:
{| class="wikitable" border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!||Hungarian||Romanian||Slovak||German||Serbian||Ruthenian
|-
!|% of total population||54.5%||16.1%||10.7%||10.4%||2.5%||2.5%
|-
|Kindergartens||2,219||4||1||18||22||-
|-
|Elementary schools||14,014||2,578||322||417||n/a||47
|-
|Junior high schools||652||4||-||6||3||-
|-
|Science high schools||33||1||-||2||-||-
|-
|Teachers' colleges||83||12||-||2||1||-
|-
|Gymnasiums for boys||172||5||-||7||1||-
|-
|High schools for girls||50||-||-||1||-||-
|-
|Trade schools||105||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|Commercial schools||65||1||-||-||-||-
|}
<small>Source:<ref name="Paclisanu85">Z. Paclisanu, ''Hungary's struggle to annihilate its national minorities'', Florida, 1985 pp. 89-92</ref></small>
===Election system===
The census system of the post-1867 Kingdom of Hungary was unfavourable to nationalities. According to the 1874 election law, which remained unchanged until 1918, only the upper 5.9% of whole population had voting rights. That high census effectively excluded almost the whole peasantry and the working class from the political life. The percentage of low-income people was somewhat higher among the nationalities than among the Magyars, except the Germans who were generally richer.
In 1900, nearly 33% of the deputies were elected by less than 100 and close upon 66% of the deputies were elected by less than 1000 votes.<ref name="setonwatson1911">R.W. Seton-Watson, ''Corruption and reform in Hungary'', London, 1911</ref> Transylvania had an even worse representation, the more Romanian a county was, the fewer voters did it possess. Out of the Transylvanian deputies sent to Budapest, 35 represented the 4 mostly Hungarian counties and the chief towns (together forming 20% of the population), whereas only 30 deputies represented another 72% of the population, which was predominantly Romanian.<ref name="setonwatson1934">R.W. Seton-Watson, ''A history of the Roumanians'', Cambridge, University Press, 1934, pp.403</ref><ref name="castellan89">Georges Castellan, ''A history of the Romanians'', Boulder, 1989, pp.146</ref>
In 1913, even the electorate that elected only one-third of the deputies had a non proportional ethnic composition.<ref name="setonwatson1911">R.W. Seton-Watson, ''Corruption and reform in Hungary'', London, 1911, pp.403</ref> The Magyars who gave the 54.5% of the whole population (in Hungary proper) had 60.2% majority in the electorate. Ethnic Germans participated with 10.4% in population and 13.0% in the electorate. The participation of other ethnic groups was as follows: Slovaks (10.7% in population, 10.4% in the electorate), Romanians (16.1% in population, 9.9% in the electorate), Rusyns (2.5% in population, 1.7% in the electorate), Croats (1.1% in population, 1.0% in the electorate), Serbs (2.2% in population, 1.4% in the electorate), and others (2.2% in population, 1.4% in the electorate).
Officially, Hungarian electoral laws haven't contained any legal discrimination based on nationality or language. The high census wasn't uncommon in other European countries in the 1860s but later the countries of Western-Europe gradually lowered and at last abolished their censi. That never happened in the Kingdom of Hungary, although electoral reform was one of the main topic of political debates in the last decades before World War I.
===Names===
{{see also|List of Magyarized geographical names}}
The Magyarization policy under the governing of [[Dezső Bánffy]] between 1895 and 1899 also included forced{{Fact|date=December 2007}} Magyarization of personal and geographical names. The law about [[registry]] books prescribed that all names in these books should be in Hungarian. The native names of non-Hungarians were, thus, replaced with Hungarian ones, for example Serbian name ''Stevan'' was replaced with ''Istvan'' or ''Jelena'' with ''Ilona''. The policy included not only Magyarization of personal names, but of surnames as well.
Hungarian authorities put constant pressure upon all non-Hungarians to Magyarize their names and the ease with which this could be done gave rise to the nickname of ''Crown Magyars'' (the price of the registration being one krone).<ref name="setonwatson1934">R.W. Seton-Watson, ''A history of the Roumanians'', Cambridge, University Press, 1934, pp.408</ref> In 1881 the "Central Society for Name Magyarization" (Központi Névmagyarositó Társaság) was founded in 1881 in [[Budapest]]. The aim of this private society was to provide advice and guidelines for those who wanted to Magyarize their surnames. [[Telkes Simon]] became the chairman of the society, who professed that “one can achieve being accepted as a true son of the nation by adopting a national name”. The society began an advertising campaign in the newspapers and sent out circular letters. They also made a proposal to lower the fees of the name changing. The proposal was accepted by the Parliament and the fee was lowered from 5 Forints to 50 [[Krajcár]]s. After this the name changings peaked in 1881 and 1882 (with 1261 and 1065 registered name changes), and continued in the following years on the average of 750-850 per year.<ref>[http://www.elib.hu/00000/00060/html/074/pc007478.html A Pallas nagy lexikona<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> During the Bánffy-administration there was another boost with the highest 6700 application forms in 1897, mostly due to the pressure from authorities and employers of the government sector. Statistics show that only between 1881 and 1905 42,437 surnames were Magyarized.<ref name="setonwatson1934">R.W. Seton-Watson, ''A history of the Roumanians'', Cambridge, University Press, 1934, pp.408</ref> Voluntary Magyarization of German or Slavic-sounding surnames remained a typical phenomenon in Hungary during the course of the whole 20th century.
Together with Magyarization of personal names and surnames, the exclusive use of the Hungarian names of geographical places, instead of multilingual usage, was also common. For the places that were not known under Hungarian names in the past, new Hungarian names were invented and used in administration instead of the former original non-Hungarian names. Examples of places where original non-Hungarian names were replaced with newly invented Hungarian names: Szvidnik - Felsővízköz (in Slovak [[Svidník]], now [[Slovakia]]), Najdás - Néranádas (in Romanian [[Naidǎş]], now [[Romania]]), Sztarcsova - Tárcsó (in Serbian [[Starčevo]], now [[Serbia]]), Lyutta - Havasköz (in Ruthenian [[Lyuta]], now [[Ukraine]]), Bruck - Királyhida (now [[Bruck an der Leitha]], [[Austria]]).<ref>Lelkes György: Magyar helységnév-azonosító szótár, Talma Könyvkiadó, Baja, 1998</ref>
According to Hungarian statistics<ref>{{hu icon}} Kozma, István, [http://www.historia.hu/archivum/2000/000506kozma.htm A névmagyarosítások története. A családnév-változtatások], ''História'' (2000/05-06)</ref> and considering the huge number of assimilated persons between 1700-1944 (~3 million) only 340,000-350,000 names were magyarised between 1815-1944; this happened mainly inside the Hungarian-speaking area. (One Jewish name out of 17 was Magyarised, in comparation with other nationalities: one out of 139 (Catholic) -427 (Evangelical) for Germans and 170 (Catholic) -330 (Evangelical) for Slovaks.
==Migration==
Part of the Magyarization was a result of internal migration of segments of the ethnically non-Hungarian population to the Kingdom of Hungary's central predominantly Hungarian counties and to Budapest where they assimilated. The ratio of ethnically non-Hungarian population in the Kingdomn was also dropping due to their overrepresentation among the migrants to foreign countries, mainly to the United States.<ref>István Rácz, ''A paraszti migráció és politikai megítélése Magyarországon 1849–1914.'' Budapest: 1980.</ref> Hungarians, the largest ethnic group in the Kingdom representing 45.5% of the population in 1900, accounted for only 26.2% of the emigrants, while non-Hungarians (54.5%) accounted for 72% from 1901 to 1913.<ref>Júlia Puskás, ''Kivándorló Magyarok az Egyesült Államokban, 1880-1914.'' Budapest: 1982.</ref> The areas with the highest emigration were the northern mostly Slovak inhabited counties of [[Sáros county|Sáros]], [[Szepes county|Szepes]], [[Zemplén county|Zemlén]], and from [[Ung county]] where a substantial [[Rusyn]] population lived. In the next tier were some of the southern counties including [[Bács-Bodrog]], [[Torontál]], [[Temes]], and [[Krassó-Szörény]] largely inhabited by Serbs, Romanians, and Germans, as well as the northern mostly Slovak counties of [[Árva (county)|Árva]] and [[Gömör-Kishont]], and the central Hungarian inhabited county of [[Veszprém (former county)|Veszprém]]. The reasons for emigration were mostly economic.<ref>László Szarka, ''Szlovák nemzeti fejlõdés-magyar nemzetiségi politika 1867-1918.'' Bratislava: 1995.</ref> Additionally, some may have wanted to avoid Magyarization or the draft, but direct evidence of other than economic motivation among the emigrants themselves is limited.<ref>Aranka Terebessy Sápos, "Középső-Zemplén migrációs folyamata a dualizmus korában." ''Fórum Társadalomtudományi Szemle,'' III, 2001.</ref> The Kingdom's administration welcomed the development as yet another instrument of increasing the ratio of ethnic Hungarians at home.<ref>László Szarka, ''A szlovákok története.'' Budapest: 1992.</ref>
The Hungarian government made a contract with the English-owned [[Cunard Line|Cunard Steamship Company]] for a direct passenger line from [[Rijeka]] to [[New York]]. Its purpose was to enable the government to increase the business transacted through their medium.<ref>James Davenport Whelpey, ''The Problem of the Immigrant.'' London: 1905.</ref> While encouraging emigration, the company did not give passports to ethnic Hungarians.<ref>Dr. Dimitrije Kirilović, Pomađarivanje u bivšoj Ugarskoj, Novi Sad - Srbinje, 2006</ref>
By 1914, a total number of 3 million had emigrated,<ref>[http://www.ufr-anglais.univ-paris7.fr/ETUDIANTS/infopedagogiques/code%2041%20CI1US2/Immigration.htm Immigration push and pull factors, conditions of living and restrictive legistration], UFR d'ETUDES ANGLOPHONES,Paris</ref> of whom about 25% returned. This process of returning was halted by World War I and the [[partition of Austria-Hungary]]. The majority of the emigrants came from the most indigent social groups, especially from the agrarian sector. Almost 530,000 people left the country between 1905 and 1907, which shows a direct connection{{Fact|date=December 2007}} between the U.S. trade fluctuation{{Fact|date=December 2007}} and Hungary's developing stages{{Fact|date=December 2007}} (the living standard of the peasantry, decline of agrarian movements, and even the [[Phylloxera]] plague).
==Greek-catholic Hungarians==
According to the [[2001]]- census 268,935 [[greek-catholic]] christians. Excepting few thousands of [[Romanians]] and [[Rusyns]], most of them are today ethnically and linguistically related to Hungarians. Most of the Greek-catholic Hungarians have Rusyn<ref>[http://www.rusyn.org/relhajdudorog.html The Rusyns - Rusyn<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and Romanian<ref>Spatiul Istoric si ethnic romanesc, vol.1, Editura Militara, Bucuresti, 1992</ref><ref>http://www.sfantuldaniilsihastrul.ro/fisiere/pagini.pdf</ref> descendants. The Hungarian Greek-catholic diocese of [[Hajdudorog]] was founded in [[1912]]. On that time, the diocese promoted the replecement of the Rusyn and Romanian liturgic language with Hungarian. Today, the seat of the diocese is located in [[Nyíregyháza]].
==Jews==
In the nineteenth century, the [[Neolog Judaism|Neolog]] Jews were located mainly in the cities and larger towns. They arose in the environment of the latter period of the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] generally good period for upwardly mobile Jews, especially those of modernizing inclinations. In the Hungarian portion of the Empire, most Jews (nearly all Neologs and even most of the Orthodox) adopted the Hungarian language as their primary language and viewed themselves as "[[Magyars]] of the Jewish persuasion".<ref>Michael Riff, The Face of Survival: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Past and Present, Valentine Mitchell, London, 1992, ISBN 0-85303-220-3.
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After the [[Jewish Emancipation#Dates of emancipation|emancipation of Jews in 1867]], the Jewish population of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]] (as well as the ascending [[German people|German]] population<ref>Erényi Tibor: A zsidók története Magyarországon, Változó Világ, Budapest, 1996</ref>) actively embraced Magyarization, because they saw it as an opportunity for [[assimilation (sociology)|assimilation]] without conceding their religion. Stephen Roth writes, "Hungarian Jews were opposed to [[Zionism]] because they hoped that somehow they could achieve equality with other Hungarian citizens, not just in law but in fact, and that they could be integrated into the country as Hungarian Israelites. The word 'Israelite' ({{lang-hu|Izraelita}}) denoted only religious affiliation and was free from the ethnic or national connotations usually attached to the term 'Jew'. Hungarian Jews attained remarkable achievements in business, culture and less frequently even in politics. But even the most successful Jews were not fully accepted by the majority of the Magyars{{Fact|date=April 2008}} as one of their kind — as the events following the [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[Germany|German]] invasion of the country in [[World War II]] so tragically demonstrated." <!-- punctuation follows the book cited, please leave it. --><ref>Roth, Stephen. "Memories of Hungary", p.125–141 in Riff, Michael, ''The Face of Survival: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Past and Present''. Valentine Mitchell, London, 1992, ISBN 0-85303-220-3. p. 132.</ref> However, in the 1930s and early 1940s [[Budapest]] was a [[safe harbor|safe haven]] for Slovak, German and Austrian Jewish refugees<ref name=US>{{cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005264 |title=Budapest |accessdate=2008-06-02 |accessmonthday= |accessdaymonth= |accessyear= |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work=Holocaust Encyclopedia |publisher=[[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> and a center of Hungarian Jewish cultural life<ref name=US/>.
In [[2006]] the Company for Hungarian Jewish Minority could not collect 1000 signatures for a petition to declare Hungarian Jews a minority<ref>[http://index.hu/politika/belfold/zskis6272/ Index - Nem lesz kisebbség a zsidóság<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> even though there are at least 100000 Jews in the country. The official Hungarian Jewish religious organization, [[Mazsihisz]] advised not to vote for the new status because they think that Jews identify themselves as a religious group, not as a 'national minority'. There was no real control throughout the process and non-Jewish people could also sign the petition<ref>[http://index.hu/politika/belfold/zskis6272/ Index - Nem lesz kisebbség a zsidóság<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> .
=== Magyarization in Upper Hungary ===
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As a result of the Magyarization policy in the [[Kingdom of Hungary]], the Slovaks were a culturally, politically, etc. decimated nation{{Fact|date=April 2008}}. Although the share of Slovaks within the electorate (10,4%) largely reflected their weight in the total population of Hungary proper (10,7%) Slovaks had extremely marginal representation in the parliament (1 deputy out of 420 MPs). Although at the time of the [[Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867]] there were more than one thousand Slovak elementary schools, their number was gradually reduced to 322 by 1918. Slovaks had no institutions, offices, judges, they were often prevented from voting on ethnic grounds, students were expelled from schools just for speaking Slovak in the street or for owning Slovak books, it was impossible to buy a train ticket in Slovak in Slovak speaking regions.<ref>[[Robert William Seton-Watson|Viator, Scotus]]: [http://uk.geocities.com/gogastransylvania/Seton-Watson/RacialProblems.htm Racial problems in Hungary]. 1906</ref><ref>Marko, Martinický: Slovensko-maďarské vzťahy.1995</ref><ref>Dejiny Bratislavy. Archív hlavného mesta SSR Bratislavy. 1978</ref><ref>Hanák, Jozef: Obsadenie Bratislavy.2004</ref>
==Notable dates==
*1844 - Hungarian is gradually introduced for all civil records (kept at local parishes until 1895). German became an official language again after the 1848 revolution, but the laws reverted in 1881 yet again. From 1836 to 1881, 14,000 families had their name Magyarized in the area of Banat alone.
*1898 - Simon Telkes publishes the book "How to Magyarize family names".
*1897 - The Bánffy law of the villages is ratified. According to this law, all officially used village names in the Hungarian Kingdom had to be in Hungarian language.
*1907 - The Apponyi educational law made Hungarian a compulsory subject in all schools in the Kingdom of Hungary. This also extended to confessional and communal schools, which had the right to provide instruction in a minority language as well. "All pupils regardless of their native language must be able to express their thoughts in Hungarian both in spoken and in written form at the end of fourth grade [~ at the age of 10 or 11]"<ref name="Romsics" />
*1907 - The [[Černová tragedy]] in present-day northern Slovakia, a controversial event in which 15 people were killed during a clash between gendarmes who were ethnic Slovak and local villagers.
== See also ==
* [[Treaty of Trianon]]
* [[Transylvanian Memorandum]]
* [[Slovakization]]
* [[Romanianization]]
* [[Serbianisation]]
== References ==
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== Sources ==
# Dr. Dimitrije Kirilović, ''Pomađarivanje u bivšoj Ugarskoj'', [[Novi Sad]] - [[Srbinje]], 2006 (reprint). Originally printed in Novi Sad in 1935.
# Dr. Dimitrije Kirilović, ''Asimilacioni uspesi Mađara u Bačkoj, Banatu i Baranji'', Novi Sad - Srbinje, 2006 (reprint). Originally printed in Novi Sad in 1937 as ''Asimilacioni uspesi Mađara u Bačkoj, Banatu i Baranji - Prilog pitanju demađarizacije Vojvodine''.
# Lazar Stipić, ''Istina o Mađarima'', Novi Sad - Srbinje, 2004 (reprint). Originally printed in Subotica in 1929 as ''Istina o Madžarima''.
# Dr. Fedor Nikić, ''Mađarski imperijalizam'', Novi Sad - Srbinje, 2004 (reprint). Originally printed in Novi Sad in 1929.
# Borislav Jankulov, Pregled kolonizacije Vojvodine u XVIII i XIX veku, Novi Sad - Pančevo, 2003.
# Dimitrije Boarov, Politička istorija Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 2001.
# Robert Bideleux and Ian Jeffries, ''A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change'', Routledge, 1998. ISBN 0-415-16111-8 hardback, ISBN 0-415-16112-6 paper.
== External links ==
* Scotus Viator (pseudonym), ''[http://uk.geocities.com/gogastransylvania/Seton-Watson/RacialProblems.htm Racial Problems in Hungary]'', London: Archibald and Constable (1908), reproduced in its entirety on line. See especially [http://uk.geocities.com/gogastransylvania/Seton-Watson/Appendice07.htm Magyarization of schools (as of 1906)]
* [http://www.genealogy.ro/cont/13.htm Magyarization in Banat]
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