ABSTRACT
HUNGARIAN COMMUNITIES Many Hungarian Americans trace their heritage to parts of Europe that technically are no longer part of Hungary. Hungary today is a small, landlocked central European country of almost thirtysix thousand square miles (slightly smaller than Indiana), with a population of about ten million people. The country used to be much larger. As one of the defeated in World War I, it was forced to give up nearly ninety thousand square miles to neighboring Austria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia. The population of Hungary before World War I was made up of various ethnic groups and several different religions. Greater Hungary had national minorities of Slovaks, Serbs, Germans, Croats, Slovenians, Romanians, and others. The core group of what might be called inner Hungary was made up of Magyars.
