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| Capital | Budapest | ||
| Largest city | Visegrád | ||
| Language official |
Hungarian(Avarian) | ||
| others | Shtokavian, German, Bohemian | ||
| Religion main |
Hungarian Orthodox Church | ||
| others | Hungarian Greek Catholic Church, Judaism | ||
| Area | 504,525.54 km² | ||
| Population | ? | ||
| Independence | from Lombard Kingdom | ||
| declared | 568 | ||
| Currency | Hungarian Peníze | ||
| Calling Code | +578 | ||
| Internet TLD | .HU | ||
Hungary is a country in Central Europe. It borders Bohemia, Poliania and Croatia to the north, Croatia again to the east, Germany and Venice to the west and Byzantium to the south.
Name[]
As with OTL Hungary, the words Hungary and Hungarian are exonyms that means "land of Huns" and "language of the land of the Huns", respectively. In OTL Hungary is called "Magyarország" and their language is "Magyar". Hungary is called Golyamavariya (Аварска родина) and the language is Avarski (Аварски), or simply Avar.
History[]
The modern land of Hungary was originally inhabited by Iranic, Illyrian and Celtic tribes. The region was conquered by the Romans and called Pannonia, the natives either fled or became Romanised.
The province of Pannonia is eventually taken by the Huns, who create an empire stretching from Central Asia to France and Italy to Sweden. The Huns arrived in Eastern Europe and subjugated the Gothic people and Alans of the area. They fought the Visigoths, Burgundians and Eastern Empire as mercenaries after being hired by Rome. The half-Scythian general Aetius spent his childhood among the Huns after being taken hostage by the Visigoths and then traded to the Huns.
The Huns, sensing Eastern Roman weakness, choose to pillage the Balkans until they paid him to leave. He eventually chooses Gaul as his next target but were defeated by Aetius. Not long after he attacks Italy itself but refuses to attack the city of Rome (possibly due to a visit from the Pope or due to the Byzantines entering the war).
After Atilla's death his sons fight each other in a series of civil wars, while this happens they loose most of their recent gains to Roman/Byzantine counterattacks. The Hunnic empire finally fell when the Gothic people revolted.
Gothic/Lombard rule of Hungary ends when Slavic people migrate in large numbers to the area.
The Avars, a tribal confederation made of tribes of Iranic, Caucasian and Turkic ethnicity, known to the Byzantines as Varchonítes, conquered Pannonia from the Slavs and Lombards. They suppress Slavic revolts and repel invasions by the Frankish empire and the Madgals. They start to absorb the Slavs into their confederation and gradually the cultures begin to merge until they form a new ethnic group, culture and language.
Stuck between two giants, the Byzantines and the Holy Roman Empire, the Avars (who at this time are being called "Hungarian" by outsiders) realise that if they want to survive then they must choose one of their neighbours to be allies with.
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Traditional Clothing in the region
The main ethnic group in Hungary (and some parts of nearby countries) are the Hungarians. This ethnic group is a combination of a variety of distinct groups that have merged over the centuries. The ethnogenesis of Hungarians in their modern form began when the Avars conquered the region from the Slavs and Lombards. The Avars were a multiethnic confederation that included people of Turkic, Iranic and Caucasian origin, and chose to incorporate the preexisting Slavic and Gothic people into the new Avar state in Central Europe, which was now being called "Hungary" by outsiders. Due to Pannonian Slavs outnumbering the Avar conquerors the Avars gradually chose to adopt the common language of the peasants to better integrate, although modern Hungarian culture retains many elements of Old Avar Culture. Hungarians speak a Slavic language known as either Avarski or simply Avar, but the term "Hungarian" is used more frequently by people who are not from the region. The local religion is the Hungarian Orthodox Church, although the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church forms a significant minority. Genetic testing shows that modern Hungarians have ancestry from Slavic, Turkic, Germanic, Iranic and Caucasian groups, as well as smaller amounts of ancestry from Celtic and Roman people who lived in modern-day Hungary before the Germanic migration.
Despite the different groups that make up Hungarians all integrating with eachother over the centuries, in some more isolated parts of the country full blooded Turkic, Iranic and Germanic groups still lave, including the Shtokavians (Slavic), Pechenegs (Turkic), Jassi (Iranian) and the Danube Germans. Hungary also has significant Romani and Jewish minorities, both of which have populations in the hundreds of thousands.