Hungary

• Capital: Budapest
• Major Cities
  • Szeged
  • Debrecen
• Major Geographical Features
  • Lake Balaton
  • Danube River
  • Tisza River
  • Great Hungarian Plain
• Official Name: Republic of Hungary
• Religions:
  • Roman Catholic
  • Calvinist
  • Lutheran
• Language: Hungarian (Magyar)
• Most spoken non-Indo-European language in Europe
• 1848: Louis Kossuth leads a relatively unsuccessful revolution against Hapsburg rule
• 1867: The Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was established
• 1918: Austro-Hungarian Empire collapses
• 1945: Hungary established as a Soviet Bloc nation
• 1956: Hungary joins the Warsaw Pact after an uprising against communist rule that was put down by the USSR
• 1989: Communist rule overthrown
• 1999: Hungary joins NATO
• 2004: Hungary joins the European Union
• Independence: 1918 upon the dissolution of the Austria-Hungary
• Government: parliamentary democracy
• Currency: forint
• Indiana is slightly larger than Hungary
• Literacy: 99.2%
• Climate: temperate
• Landlocked
• Budapest was originally two cities, Buda and Pest. Each city was on a different side of the Danube River until they merged into one city