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I ended the previous post when, some 18 months after the armistice that brought World War I to its close, Hungary signed the Treaty of Trianon that left it not only considerably smaller in both area and population but substantially …

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Part two of this brief overview of Hungarian history ended with Lajos Kossuth ascending to a position of national leadership as an element of the Hungarian War for Independence. Part three will take us up to the end of the …

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In our last episode, Suleiman had killed King Louis and installed Janos (John) Zápolya as his vassal King of Hungary. Meanwhile, at the Diet of Bratislava, Ferdinand 1, Holy Roman Emperor who was also Archduke of Austria was declared King …