Why was the ancient Kingdom of Hungary partitioned after World War One? In theory, it was to set free the many different nationalities (be they Romanians, Serbians, Slovaks, or a number of others) living under Hungarian rule, and in practice that was certainly achieved. But the Treaty of Trianon, in which the borders for Hungary and its new neighbours were demarcated, also left millions of Hungarians outside of the new Hungary.
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Cool video! Very informative and with a good narration. Thanks!
If hungary really wanted their population why couldn't they do a population exchange with Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia and romania? Like greece and Turkey did, this could've completely eliminate the problem
It’s insane the current Prime Minister of Hungary wants to restore its old borders. It’s freaking 2022 and he is still living in early 1900s lol
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Your videos are so interesting, are you planning on covering any Bronze Age topicw
Well done, very well done! Even tho I knew about the subject, I learned a few stuff in didn't know about!
Your argument looks mostly correct. However, in the case if Transylvania, you are missing a number of points: Romanians were not really allowed to live in cities (it was a kind of apartheid, where Hungarians were allowed to break the rules because all judges were Hungarian, despite the majority population being Romanian). So that's how you end up with a 90% Hungarian city/town being surrounded by 90% Romanian villages in a region mostly inhabited by … Romanians. Secondly, Romanians did not ask for war reparations from Hungary. They suggested that Hungary uses that as a fund for those Hungarians who wanted to leave Transylvania (dual citizenship was not allowed). Finally, it was Romania that was attacked by Soviet Hungary and that's when things really came to a head. Romania simply could not tolerate being invaded by a communist dictatorship. For when that finally happened in 1940s it ended up with a lot of Romanians deported to Siberia, or simply shot in the head with their hands tied (suggestion: look what's happening in Ukraine now).
That region in the centre of Romania that you depict as Hungarian was never 100% Hungarian. More like 80% Szekelys. Interesting historical fact: Szekelys themselves were discriminated against by Hungarians.
Also you omitted to say that Romanian and German communities of Transylvania (>70% of population)voted to join Romania democratically. The Hungarians voted against. So what could be done?
Why is Trianon suddenly such a subject since Hungary became a Putin ally and Putin decided he owns Ukraine?
it's nice to finally see this briefly but thoroughly explained
I don't like this "punishment" argument. Why isn't anyone looking at actual human losses. Transylvania was clearly ROMANIAN territory due to Romanian MAJORITY. Germans of Transylvania also agreed. Why didn't anyone count the Romanians that were hanged to death by Austro-Hungarian empire because they didn't want to fight against Romanian soldiers in WW1?
im now a triggered hungarian
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethnographic_map_of_hungary_1910_by_teleki_carte_rouge.jpg Most of Transylvania is a sparsely populated mountainous area…:( The white areas the map….
That's not north Transylvania no matter how you look at that map, idk why you kept repeating it xd.
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