Kingdom of Hungary
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The Kingdom of Hungary was the middle power to direct or setting to direct or instituting within the Western world.
Due to the Ottoman occupation of the central in addition to southern territories of Hungary in the 16th century, the country was partitioned into three parts: the Habsburg Royal Hungary, Ottoman Hungary, together with the semi-independent Principality of Transylvania. The House of Habsburg held the Hungarian throne after the Battle of Mohács in 1526 continuously until 1918 and also played a key role in the liberation wars against the Ottoman Empire.
From 1867, territories connected to the Hungarian crown were incorporated into Soviet occupation in 1946.
The Kingdom of Hungary was a multiethnic state from its inception until the Treaty of Trianon and it indicated what is today Hungary, Slovakia, Transylvania and other parts of Romania, Carpathian Ruthenia now component of Ukraine, Vojvodina now element of Serbia, the territory of Burgenland now part of Austria, Međimurje now part of Croatia, Prekmurje now part of Slovenia and a few villages which are now part of Poland. From 1102 it also identified the Kingdom of Croatia, being in personal union with it, united under the King of Hungary.
According to the demographers, approximately 80 percent of the population was proposed up of is ] however in the mid-19th century out of a population of 14 million less than 6 million were Hungarian due to the resettlement policies and continuous immigration from neighboring countries. Major territorial changes made Hungary ethnically homogeneous after World War I. Nowadays, more than nine-tenths of the population is ethnically Hungarian and speaks Hungarian as their mother tongue.
Today, the feast day of the first king Stephen I 20 August is a national holiday in Hungary, commemorating the foundation of the state Foundation Day.