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| pop1 = 6,189| ref1 = Békés County}}| pop2 = 5,137| ref2 = Pest County}}| pop3 = 4,000 | ref3 = Hajdú-Bihar County}}| pop4 = 2,000| ref4 = Csongrád County}}| pop5 = 1,500| ref5 = Heves County}}| pop6 = 500| ref6 = Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County}}| pop7 = 500| ref7 = Hungarian language>Hungarian, Romanian| religions = Romanian Orthodox Church, Roman Catholicism, LutheranismRomanian people>Romanians| footnotes = }}{{Romanians}}The Romanians in Hungary (, ) constituted a small minority. According to the most recent Hungarian census of 2011 (based on self-determination),WEB,weblink Population by nationalities, 2001 census (English), 2011-02-24, 2011-04-14,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110414085041weblink">weblink dead, the population of Romanians was 35,641 or 0.3%, a significant increase from 8,482 or 0.1% of 2001. The community is concentrated in towns and villages close to the Romanian border, such as Battonya, Elek, Kétegyháza, Pusztaottlaka and Méhkerék, and in the city of Gyula. Romanians also live in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. As of 2011, Romanians constitute one of the largest foreign communities in the country.

History

(File:Walachians_(Romanians)_in_Hungary,_census_1890.jpg|thumb|right| Romanians in Hungary according to 1890 Census)Historically, a significant part of modern day Romania was part of the Kingdom of Hungary. The oldest extant documents from Transylvania make reference to Vlachs too. Regardless of the subject of Romanian presence/non-presence in Transylvania prior to the Hungarian conquest (See Origin of the Romanians), the first written sources about Romanian settlements derive from the 13th century, record was written about Olahteluk village in Bihar county from 1283.György Fejér, Codex diplomaticus Hungariae ecclesiasticus ac civilis, Volume 7, typis typogr. Regiae Vniversitatis Vngaricae, 1831 weblink The 'land of Romanians', Terram Blacorum (1222,1280)Tamás Kis, Magyar nyelvjárások, Volumes 18-21, Nyelvtudományi Intézet, Kossuth Lajos Tudományegyetem (University of Kossuth Lajos). Magyar Nyelvtudományi Tanszék, 1972, p. 83 weblinkDennis P. Hupchick, Conflict and chaos in Eastern Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 1995 p. 58 weblinkIstván Vásáry, Cumans and Tatars: Oriental military in the pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 28 weblink{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}Heinz Stoob, Die Mittelalterliche Städtebildung im südöstlichen Europa, Böhlau, 1977, p. 204 weblink showed up in Fogaras and this area was mentioned under different name (Olachi) in 1285. The first appearance of a supposed Romanian name 'Ola' in Hungary derives from a charter (1258). They were significant population in Transylvania, Banat, Máramaros (Maramureș) and Partium. In 1881, Romanian-majority settlements projected to the present-day territory of Hungary were: Bedő, Csengerújfalu, Kétegyháza, Körösszakál, Magyarcsanád, Méhkerék, Mezőpeterd, Pusztaottlaka and Vekerd.WEB, hu,weblink Hungarian 1881 census, Important communities lived in Battonya, Elek, Körösszegapáti, Létavértes, Nyíradony, Pocsaj, Sarkadkeresztúr, and Zsáka. After the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, Hungary came close to ethnic homogeneity, with only 10.4% minorities, of which 6.9% were Germans, and Romanians constituted about 0.3%.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}The numbers of Romanians in Hungary increased briefly with the onset of World War II when Hungary annexed parts of Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia. These annexations were affirmed under the Munich Agreement (1938), two Vienna Awards (1938 and 1940). In particular, the population of Northern Transylvania, according to the Hungarian census from 1941 counted 53.5% Hungarians and 39.1% Romanians.Károly Kocsis, Eszter Kocsisné Hodosi, Ethnic Geography of the Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin, Simon Publications LLC, 1998, p. 116-153 weblink {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403113307weblink |date=2015-04-03 }} According to Romanian estimates of the region before the arbitration in 1940, there were 1,304,903 Romanians (50.2%) and 978,074 (37.1%) Hungarians.BOOK, Charles Upson Clark, Racial Aspects of Romania's Case,weblink 1941, Caxton Press, In 1950, Foaia Românească ("The Romanian Sheet"; then known by another name) was founded in Gyula. It was the first newspaper of the Romanian minority in modern Hungary and currently is the one with longest and widest level of circulation within the country.JOURNAL,weblink Rolul presei în viața unei minorități. Perspectivă generală cu referire la evoluția în timp a săptămânalului "Foaia Românească", Eva, Iova Șimon, Studii de Știință și Cultură, 2, 5, 123–125, 2006, ro, BOOK,weblink Partide politice și minorități naționale din România în secolul XX, Românii din Ungaria și modul de raportare la problema identitate / alteritate reflectat în publicațiile de limbă română, Cristina Maria, Dogot, Vasile Ciobanu, Sorin Radu, Editura Universității "Lucian Blaga", 3, 332–362, 2008, ro, 9789737865564,

Notable people

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See also

• Hungarians in Romania
• Diocese of Gyula
• Hungary–Romania relations

References

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