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HUNGARY: Transit Country Between East and West

HUNGARY: Transit Country Between East and West . A sending , transit and destination country for migration. roughly three million ethnic Hungarians live in nearby countries the country's geographical location is also a key reason

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HUNGARY: Transit Country Between East and West

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  1. HUNGARY: Transit Country BetweenEast and West

  2. A sending, transit and destination country formigration roughlythreemillionethnicHungariansliveinnearbycountries thecountry'sgeographicallocation is also a keyreason thecurrentnature of Hungary'seconomy and societyoffersspecialopportunitiestomigrants, especiallythosefromeastern Europe

  3. HistoricalBackground • thepresent-daycentral and eastern European countrieswereparts of the Habsburg Empire • betweenthe 1880s and World War I twomillionpeopleleftthe country, primarilyforeconomicreasons • World War II, subsequentpeacetreaties, evictions, and forcedsettlementsresultedinfurthermigrationflows, significantlymodifyingtheethnic map incentral and eastern Europe

  4. Hungary’sborders and ethnicsafterWorld War I and PeaceTreaty of Trianon

  5. Colorful local ethnicgovernmentsin X. districtat Budapest

  6. A fewhistoricaldetailsabout Kőbánya (Quarry) • until 1950 itwasonly a suburban • stonemine is thenamein HUN: stoneextraction • production of grapes, winecellars (Ó-hegy, Új-hegy, Csősztorony – Guardian towerprotectingvineplants). • originalHungarianbreweries; Perlmutter, Barberand theKlusemann - 1850 • pig farming (Mázsa street, Mázsasquere). • hugecellarsunderthedistrictbecauce of thestonemining– laterusedforbreweries, champagne production • popularpleasureplaceamongthepeople of center • suddenincrease of populationatthe end of 1800 • Richter Gedeon wasestablishedin 1906 • EGIS wasestablishedin 1913 – botharepharmaceuticalcompanies • Dreher brewerywasestablishedin 1862 – stillthebiggestbreweryin Hungary • …and I moved here when I was 8 years old!

  7. 9 ethnic local govermentals • Bulgarian • Gipsy • Greek – „greekbenches” • Croatian • Polish – independentchurch • German • Romanian • Russian

  8. Let’spickupthebiggestone of it… More than 10.000 Polishpeoplearrivedto Budapest beforethe I. World War – theyhaveworkedinthestonemine. AftertheyusedtheChurch – Contitheirrelegiousleaderstartedtoorganizetheconstruction of theirown. Betweenthetwo World WarthenewPolishchurchwasopened. AND STILL WORKING…

  9. How/whytheforeignpeoplearrivedto Kőbánya? • 1880: agentscollectedthepoorworkersfromthenearcontries: Slovakian, Russian and Polishforthefirstround • greekarrivedlater • factories and millsopenedquickly, theyneed more factoryworkerswithin a fairlyshortperiod • theyhavegotthepromise of flat and long-termjobopportunity

  10. Whytheysettledinthedistrict? • beforethesocialismthisdistrictwasrichinculture, indifferentkind of musicgroups and itwas an unbelivablequaterforeverykind of pleasure -> • originallythename of the Lady and Stringstreetwas Lady and GentelmanstreetDamen and Herren Promenad – youcanimagine! • thisalreadypooraerawasfullwithhills and greengardenspossibilitiesfortrekking, picnic, walkingandfishingaswell! • and thenwe had thesocialism, theybuilthousingestatesforeveryone and uncountableconcrete-jungle…

  11. Foreverybodywhoareplanningtomoveto Hungary… • Goulash • Palinka • Niceyoungpeopleeverywhere • Festivals; Volt, Sziget, Fishingon Orfű etc. • Wines • Paprika • 2 Michelin starrestaurant: Onyx, Costes Let’sseewhat is thereal life in Hungary…

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