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Hungary, its history and future

It's My country, "Hungary".
Hungary has 1100 years of its long history. In Hungary, there are many beautiful historical buildings such as Baroque style and Gothic style. Especially among of them, National Museum, Parliament, and "Cafe NewYork are the 3 most beautiful buildings. We uses those beautiful buildings still now.
Besides those beautiful buildings, we have beautiful nature in Hungary. There are many beautiful caves in Hungary. Some of them have hot-spa and concert-hall their inside. Classical concert in cave hall is fabulous and impressive.

Data of Hungary

Area	93,032 km2	Almost same as that of Hokkaido-Island (Almost same as that of Indiana in US)
Population	10.114 million	Almost same as that of Tokyo
Education System	(Elementary School) 4 years (Junior High) 4 years (Senior High) 4 years	High Level
Ethnic groups	Hungarian (Magyarian): 90 % Gypsy: 4 % German: 3 %	There are many Magyarian living in the neighboring countries.
Time Differences	8 hours
Language	Hungarian (Magyarian)	"Hello" in Hungarian --- "Szia!"
National Flag		Red is a symbol of "Blood". White is a symbol of "Peace". Green is a symbol of "Hope".

History of "Hungary".

• 896AD "Magyarian came to Hungary."
  Originally, Magyarian came to the place (where we call Hungary now) from central Asia. Since then, they have lived there for about 1100 years. So, the ancester of Hungarian is an Asian, the same as that of Japanese. Therefore, there are some gramatical similarity of language between Hungarian and Japanese.

• Around 1000AD "Hungarian Kingdom was established."

• 12th Century "Invasion by Mongolian"
• 15th-16th Century "Invasion by Osmani Turks"
  Hungary stands in geographically important place as a gate into Europe. Therefore, Mongol and Osmani Turks needs Hungary to enlarge its territory toward Europe.

• 1910s "Partnership with Germany in the World War-I"
  European countries were divided into 3 powers, the Allies, the Leagues, and the Neutrals. At that time, Hungary were seeking for a partnership with a strong country, and Germany needs Hungary for its geopolitical and agricultural merit. This leads Germany's Occupation in Hungary.

• 1930s-1940s "Nazi's Occupation in the World War-II"
  "Gate into Europe" means "Gate into Asia and Rusia" from the opposite direction. So, Nazi Germany occupied some neighboring countries such as Hungary firstly as a step toward east.

• 1945-1989 "Influence of Soviet Union"
  Immediately after the World War-II, European countries were divided into 2 groups, east and west. Since Hungary was a member of East,

"With EU", The Future of Hungary
As well as other east European countries, Hungary was released from Soviet's control in 1989. After that, their economies are no more under Soviet's control. This brought a new economic problem to those countries. It is Globalization of Economy. Since, the Soviet's collapse, they have had to keep up with the trend of Globalization. To keep up with Globalization, Hungary is going to join EU. Before joining EU, Hungary has a homework, to rise its political and economical level. So, Hungary is now building its social infrastructure.

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