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**History**

**How Hungary Started** From 9 BC to the end of the 4th century AD [|Pannonia], the western part of the basin was a part of the [|Roman Empire]. In the final stages of the expansion of the Roman empire, for a short while the Carpathian Basin fell into the influence of the Mediterranean, [|Greco-Roman civilization] - town centers, paved roads, and written sources were all part of the advances to which the Migration of Peoples put an end

** Time line **
 * Hungary was founded by Arpad, who led the Magyars into the Pannonian plains **
 * 997-1038 King Stephen (also proclaimed a Saint) of the Arpad dynasty ruled the Hungarian country **
 * 1241 - 1242 The Mongolian Tartars invasion caused devastation **
 * 1458-1490 King Matthias reigned **
 * 1526 War with Turkey - the Turks defeated the Hungarians beginning 150 years of Turkish occupation **
 * 1541 Hungary was divided into three parts **
 * The Turks ruled Central Hungary **
 * The Habsburg dynasty governed west Hungary **
 * The Hungarians ruled the South Hungary **
 * 1703-1711 Hungarian War, led by the Prince of Transylvania, against the Habsburgs failed **
 * 1848-1849 Hungarian Revolution and the Habsburg Emperor was dethroned but the Habsburg rule was re-established with the help of Russia **
 * 1867 Hungary reached a compromise with the Habsburgs initiating a double-centred monarchy in Vienna and Pest-Buda **
 * 1873 Pest, Buda and Obuda were unified forming Budapest as a major European city **
 * 1914 - 1918 First World War - Hungary fights on the losing side and the monarchy collapses **
 * 1920 - The Trianon Treaty reduced Hungary's area by two thirds and the population by one third **
 * 1938-1940 Germany raise treaties in Munich and Vienna in which Southern Slovakia and Northern Transylvania were returned to Hungary **
 * September 1939 World War II starts **
 * 1944 The Nazis occupy Hungary **
 * August 1945 The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki **
 * 1945 The Allies of World War II defeat Germany **
 * 1945 The Soviet Union liberated then occupy Hungary **
 * 1956 Hungarian revolution against Stalinism was defeated **
 * 1990 The Soviet Union army leaves Hungary and a Hungarian democracy is set up **

**Hungarian Folktale** "It's Not True"

//Once upon a time there was a Hungarian princess who was very beautiful. One day she announced that she would only marry the man who could tell her father, the king, a story which he could not believe. Now, in a village there dwelt a poor young peasant, who, hearing of this proclamation, went up to the king's palace, and loudly knocking at the gates demanded an audience of His Majesty.// //The king knew very well what the young fellow wanted, as by that time many princes and knights had come on the same errand, in the hope of winning the beautiful princess, but they had all failed. So John, the young peasant was admitted to the royal presence.//

//"Good morning, your Majesty," John said.//

//"Good morning, my lad. Well, what do you want?" asked the king, kindly.//

//"So please, your Majesty, I want a wife."//

//"Very good, lad; but what would you keep her on?"//

//"Oh! I dare say I could manage to keep her pretty comfortably. My father has a pig. A wonderful pig, your Majesty; he has kept my father, my mother, seven sisters, and myself, for the last twenty years."//

//"Indeed!" said the king.//

//"He gives us as good a quart of milk every morning as any cow."//

//"Indeed!" said the king.//

//"Yes, your Majesty, and lays most delicious eggs for our breakfast."//

//"Indeed!" said the king.//

//"And every day my mother cuts a nice bit of bacon out of his side, and every night it grows together again."//

//"Indeed!" said the king.//

//"The other day this pig disappeared, my mother looked for him high and low, he was nowhere to be seen."//

//"That was very sad," said the king.//

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">//"Finally, she found him in the larder, catching mice."//

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">//"A very useful pig!" said the king.//

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">//"Yes, your Majesty, and he pays all the bills out of the gold he picks up on the road."//

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">//"A very precious pig," said the king.//

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">//"Lately he has seemed unruly, and rather out of sorts."//

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">//"That's very sad!" said the king.//

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">//"He has refused to go where he is told, and won't allow my mother to have any more bacon from his side. Besides which, your Majesty, he is growing rather blind, and can't see where he is going."//

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">//"He should be led," said the king.//

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">//"Yes, your Majesty, that is why my father has just engaged your father to look after him."//

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">//"That's not true," yelled the king. . . then suddenly he remembered his daughter's promise. So he was obliged to allow the princess to marry the peasant's son, but this he never regretted, for the peasant's son became a most clever and amiable young prince, and lived happily with his bride and his father-in-law for very many years. Years after, when John became the king, all his people declared they had never had so wise a ruler. Then it was that he romanced no longer but was always believed and respected.//

Information for this website came from [|Folk Stories]

What is the name of the folk story? a. Do not lie b. Always tell the Truth c. It's Not True!

Who was proclaimed a saint in the year 977? a. Teresa b.King Stephen c. Ms. Mennella

Highlight for answers 1. c 2. b

Cassie Mennella ©Illinois State University Date of creation: 3/31/2011 Last modified:5/1/2011 E-mail: Camenne@isltu.edu