In this century alone, they have been part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the Soviet Union.

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The increasing likelihood of a bailout agreement between Hungary and the International Monetary Fund have pushed Hungarian bond yields, which decline as prices rise, to around 7% from about 10% last year when Legg Mason first bought in, Mr. Smith says.

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The Hungarian Open Air Museum (Szentendre, Hungary) is organizing an International Gathering of Intangible Cultural Heritage for the third time on the Whitsun weekend, 17-20 May, 2013.

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For Austria the loss of the AAA will be a bigger shock - although the financial woes of Hungary have conspicuously weakened the finances of Austrian banks that have big Hungarian loans.

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Some 40kg has already been sold to the public through Hungarian Food Ltd's market stall in Preston and the Taste of Hungary shop in Liverpool.

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Hungarian legislative leaders and Mr. Orban said that concerns about democratic backsliding in Hungary are unfounded and that their actions are in accord with EU treaties and norms.

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During his first government, between 1998 and 2002, Orban's Fidesz party designated an annual Holocaust memorial day and after returning to power in 2010 banned uniformed groups like the Jobbik-affiliated Hungarian Guard, whose marches in Budapest and countryside villages were meant to intimidate Jews and Hungary's large Roma minority.

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Hungary has also promised that some educational benefits will be available equally to all Romanian citizens studying or teaching in Hungarian, not only to those of Hungarian origin.

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The Hungarian government lit the fuse in late 1989, when it granted East Germans who made their way into Hungary a clear transit to West Germany.

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