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Estimates of the number of Hungarian Americans in the United States exceed 4 million, but also include the large number of ethnic Hungarian immigrants, most of whom have emigrated from Romania, the former Czechoslovakia, or the former Yugoslavia. The states with the largest Hungarian American populations include: [13] [14]
The following communities have more than 5% of the population as being of Hungarian ancestry, based on data extracted from the United States Census, 2000, for communities with more than 1,000 individuals identifying their ancestry (in descending order by percentage of population): [18]
Ben Ferencz – (1920-2023) born Benjamin Berell Ferencz in Hungarian Transylvania now Romania. He is an American lawyer and pacifist and was chief prosecutor for the U. S. Army at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, one of the 12 post World War II military trials held by the U.S. authorities at Nuremberg, Germany. Peter Hargitai – writer, poet, translator
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.
Between 1787 and 1910 the number of ethnic Hungarians rose from 2.3 million to 10.2 million, accompanied by the resettlement of the Great Hungarian Plain and Délvidék by mainly Roman Catholic Hungarian settlers from the northern and western counties of the Kingdom of Hungary. Spontaneous assimilation was an important factor, especially among ...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has long alleged that Ukraine's government is infringing upon the rights of those students — and of the roughly 75,000 ethnic Hungarians residing in the ...
New Buda, Iowa – This unincorporated town is now in New Buda Township, Decatur County, Iowa, which wears its name. It was founded by László Újházy. He wanted to collect the Hungarian immigrants of 1848–1849 to one place, where they could build a New Hungary. Buda, Illinois, a village, named after the old Hungarian capital
Moments like this — like the aftermath of 9/11 or the reckoning after former President Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban in 2017 — moved many to conceal their ethnicity or cover their faith ...