Surprising facts about Hungary

Ever heard of Hungary, homeland of Attila, paprika, Lake Balaton and many other fascinating things?

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In this brief video you can find seven little known facts about Hungary. The capital of Hungary is Budapest and its currency is the forint. Where is Hungary? It is located right in middle of Europe, in the Central-Eastern half.

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1. There's one element of Hungarian cuisine that's present in every kitchen, from Grandma's to that of the country's first Michelin-starred restaurant: paprika.The Hungarian paprika is a powdered pepper, used to spice up just about every dish -- especially goulash. In Hungary there is no substitute for paprika.

2. Hungarian is just about the most difficult language in the world that uses the Roman alphabet. This has been certified by the British Foreign Office survey. It’s an agglutinative language, which means basically that you stick lots of endings onto words to change their meaning or grammatical function. It belongs to the Uralic family, together with Finnish and Estonian and they are not Indo European languages.

3. The Sziget Festival is the Hungarian for “Island” and is one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe. It is held every August in northern Budapest, the capital of Hungary, on Óbudai-sziget (“Old Buda Island”), a leafy 108-hectare island on the Danube.

4. The northernmost holy place of Islam is in Budapest. It’s the burial place of a Turkish dervish, named Gül Baba, who came to Hungary during the Turkish invasion in the 16th century. He was honored as a holy man and after he died in 1541 his tomb in Buda became an Islamic sacred place and a site of pilgrimage. The chapel, built between 1543 and 1548, is one of the few remaining Turkish buildings in Budapest.

5. The word 'coach' derives from the name of the Hungarian town Kocs, where multi-passenger wheeled vehicles first appeared around 1500.

6. Just after the Second World War, the country came under the communist rule and when it tried to rise against the soviet rule in the year 1956, the attempt was crushed by the Red Army. Still, later in 1968, Hungary became the first European nation to gain partial economic freedom; it embraced the concept of free market and decentralization too at a limited level.

7. Hungary came into light when it rose in partnership as Austro-Hungarian Empire during the mid nineteenth century. They ruled over the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, parts of Poland, Romania, Italy, Serbia and Ukraine. But soon after the First World War, Hungary gained existence as an individual free state.

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[Afikner]

Lengyel, magyar – két jó barát, együtt harcol, s issza borát Greetings from Poland ;>

[shpho]

Another fact: Poles and Hungarians loves each other. Friendship 4ever!

Greetings form Sieradz in Poland!

[silviulazlescu]

And the 8th fact is that Hungary is the most beautiful country in the Eastern Europe ! Love and respect from Romania ! Best wishes to you !

[nematolvajkergetok]

Fun fact: The word bacon also comes from Hungarian. There is an area called Bakony where they make a particular kind of bacon. It was exported to England during the Middle Ages where they called it "bacon" after its place of origin.

Fun fact 2.: The Austro-Hungarian Empire never colapsed. It actually _collapsed_. Also, there are many grammar nazis in Hungary.

[slowacjaczechy]

God. Honor. Homeland. Greetings from Poland

[pietrek]

Hungarian brothers! Greetings from Poland! ;)

[ellahaloway]

Warm hugs from Poland! I love magyar (hungarian) language and goulash. Friendship forever <3

[occseszegedisrac]

Hungary is very very beatifull country!!!

[alexandru-marianivan]

I can say that i'm romanian and i love hungary!But i think we shouldn't call each other gypsies because we are not!Gypsies are coming from India (not only India) and here in Europe the temperature it's not that high and the humidity it's higher, sooo the gypsies can't appear in any country of Europe!Greetings from Romania!

[kapskutowykutodaktyl]

Revolt of '56 begun as a sign of solidarity with strikes in Poland. Thank You for your brotherhood!

[andreasbekker]

Love from Poland!


And Denmark...

[ria.den]

Ez az egész amit hazánkról tanultatok? Iszlám hagyaték???? Szomorú.

[emil]

Hungary is a nice country greetings from Romania

[Ghery]

My inner grammar nazi's tingling: at 0:52 the phrase "Szeretnéd megtanulni magyarul?" is incorrect if you aimed for "Would you like to learn Hungarian?". The correct form in this case is: "Szeretnél megtanulni magyarul?" (Otherwise it means "Would you like to learn it in Hungarian?")

It's not that difficult of a langugae if you practice it well enough your whole life. ;)

[danielj.]

You forgot one thing...A lot of invention are hungarian:pen, helicopter, rubik cube, black-white TV, colorful TV, soda water(I think), H-bomb, atomic bomb and more ;)

[leventepalban]

Wrong translation
Jó napot kívánok means Good day!
And Do you want to learn hungarian? is:
Szeretnél and not szeretndéd

[Crassus]

0:53 Thats not "Szeretnéd megtanulni magyarul?" the right is: "Szeretnél megtanulni magyarul?"!

[ObviousHUN]

you forgot the most important: Palinka

[andronic]

All I know about Hungary is that goulash is tasty as hell. Greetings from Romania :)

[percmagyar]

Sziget festival is so loud and I can't hear anything at the event... I live next to the island