o roughly three million ethnic hungarians live in nearby countries o the country's geographical...
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HUNGARY: Transit Country Between East and West
A sending, transit and destination country for
migration
o roughly three million ethnic Hungarians live in nearby countries
o the country's geographical location is also a key reason
o the current nature of Hungary's economy and society offers special opportunities to migrants, especially those from eastern Europe
Historical Background
o the present-day central and eastern European countries were parts of the Habsburg Empire
o between the 1880s and World War I two million people left the country, primarily for economic reasons
o World War II, subsequent peace treaties, evictions, and forced settlements resulted in further migration flows, significantly modifying the ethnic map in central and eastern Europe
Hungary’s borders and ethnics after
World War I and Peace Treaty of Trianon
Colorful local ethnic governments in X.
district at Budapest
ountil 1950 it was only a suburbano stone mine is the name in HUN: stone extractionoproduction of grapes, wine cellars (Ó-hegy, Új-hegy, Csősztorony – Guardian tower protecting vine plants).o original Hungarian breweries; Perlmutter, Barber and the Klusemann - 1850o pig farming (Mázsa street, Mázsa squere).o huge cellars under the district becauce of the stone mining– later used for breweries, champagne productiono popular pleasure place among the people of centero sudden increase of population at the end of 1800o Richter Gedeon was established in 1906o EGIS was established in 1913 – both are pharmaceutical companieso Dreher brewery was established in 1862 – still the biggest brewery in Hungary
o…and I moved here when I was 8 years old!
A few historical details about Kőbánya (Quarry)
9 ethnic local govermentals
o Bulgarian
oGipsy
o Greek – „greek benches”
o Croatian
oPolish – independent church
o German
oRomanian
o Russian
Let’s pick up the biggest one of it…
More than 10.000 Polish people arrived to Budapest before the I. World War – they have worked in the stone mine.
After they used the Church – Conti their relegious leader started to organize the construction of their own.
Between the two World War the new Polish church was opened.
AND STILL WORKING…
How/why the foreign people arrived to Kőbánya?
o1880: agents collected the poor workers from the near contries: Slovakian, Russian and Polish for the first round
o greek arrived later
o factories and mills opened quickly, they need more factory workers within a fairly short period
o they have got the promise of flat and long-term job opportunity
Why they settled in the district?
o before the socialism this district was rich in culture, in different kind of music groups and it was an unbelivable quater for every kind of pleasure ->
o originally the name of the Lady and String street was Lady and Gentelman street Damen and Herren Promenad – you can imagine!
o this already poor aera was full with hills and green gardens possibilities for trekking, picnic, walking and fishing as well!
o and then we had the socialism, they built housing estates for everyone and uncountable concrete-jungle…
For everybody who are planning to move to Hungary…
o Goulash
o Palinka
o Nice young people everywhere
o Festivals; Volt, Sziget, Fishing on Orfű etc.
o Wines
o Paprikao 2 Michelin star restaurant: Onyx, Costes
Let’s see what is the real life in Hungary…