Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2014 (26. évfolyam, 1-39. szám)

2014-05-23 / 21. szám

Hungary PM renews autonomy call for ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has renewed a plea for ethnic Hungarians in neighbour­ing Ukraine to be granted autonomy even after a similar call last week drew a diplomatic backlash. World Bulletin/News Desk Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has renewed a plea for ethnic Hungarians in neighbour­ing Ukraine to be granted autonomy even after a similar call last week drew a diplomatic backlash. “Ukraine can be neither stable, nor democratic if it does not give its minorities, including Hungar­ians, their due,” Orbán said on public television late on Friday. “That is, dual (Hungarian) citizenship, collective rights and autonomy.” Orbán, re-elected in a landslide win last month, was reaffirming a call for autonomy for about 200,000 ethnic Hungarians in western Ukraine that he made a week ago as he was sworn in as prime minister. The prime minister has won popularity at home by reaching out to Hungarians beyond the country’s borders who were allowed to vote in the national election for the first time in April. He has never suggested reuniting the lost territories with Hungary, but his stance has irked governments in some neighbouring countries. Orbán said that Hungary stood by Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, which annexed Crimea in March saying it needed to protect ethnic Russians there. “Ukraine’s territorial integrity was infringed. In violation of international law, Russia has launched an action against Ukraine. We need to support Ukraine in this matter,” he said. Orbán said a new Ukraine was taking shape and important decisions would be made after a presidential election set for May 25, meaning the time was ripe for Hungary to “voice its expectations.” He said autonomy could take many forms, but declined to go into more detail, adding it was up to ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine to decide what form of autonomy would be best for them. “But whichever they stand up for, they need to know, as well as the Ukrainians, that the Hungar­ian state will throw its full weight behind ethnic Hungarians’ push for autonomy in Ukraine,” he said. worldbulletin.net Interesting Facts About Hungary Here are a few interesting facts about this old country with a very rich history: Hungary is a land-locked country in Central Europe sharing its borders with Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. The population of Hungary is 9,919,128. Its capital city is Budapest with a population of 1.709 million (201 L>. The territory which is Hungary novv was once part of the Celtic world, then the Roman Empire. Follow­ing the fall of Rome, the Huns settled in the plains of Pannónia and gave their name to Hungary. Founded in 897, Hungary is one of the oldest countries in Europe (before France and Germany became separate entities, and before the unification of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms.) Around 1000 CE, the Kingdom of Hungary was one of the largest states in Europe, bigger than France. Later, it became one of the two “eagle heads” of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hungarian language is known as Magyar and is the direct descendent of the language spoken by the Huns. It is not an Indo-European language and has only two related languages in Europe (Finnish and Estonian). Around two-thirds of the Hungarian people are Roman Catholic, about a quarter are Calvinist. The rest of the population is either belongs to the Lutheran; Jewish, Greek Orthodox. The country fell under communist rule following World War II. The 1986 Hungarian Grand Prix was the first Formula One race to take place behind the Iron Curtain. Communism in Hungary ended 1989 and the country became a parliamentary republic. It joined NATO in 1999 and the EU five years later. Hungary has one of the most important thermal spring cultures in Europe. The country boasts no less than 1,500 spas, typically featuring Roman, Greek and Turkish architecture. Hungary has a long tradition of classical music with famous composers like Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály and Franz Liszt. Inventions by Hungarians in Hungary include the noiseless match (by János Irinyi), Rubik’s cube (by Erno Rubik), and the krypton electric bulb (Imre Brody). As of 2007, 13 Hungarians had received a Nobel Prize (this is more than Japan, China, India, Australia or Spain) in every category except peace. Hungarians won gold medals at every summer Olympics except Antwerp 1920 and Los Angeles 1984 when they did not compete. Basic education lasts for eight years divided into two stages of four years each. Secondary education is provided in academic secondary schools (gimnázium) or vocational secondary schools (szakközépiskola). Hungarian higher education has a dual system with colleges and universities. Some colleges are associ­ated with universities and operate as college faculties within universities. A university can also offer college level courses. The duration of training at college level is minimum 3 years, maximum 4 years; the dura­tion of education at university level is minimum 4 years, maximum 5 years (with the exception of medical universities where it is 6 years). According to the binary pattern, colleges and universities grant Főiskolai Oklevél (College-level Degree) and universities grant Egyetemi Oklevél (University-level Degree). Universi­ties organize three-year PhD courses, specialized further education courses (with a normal duration of one to three years) and various continuous education courses. The University of Pécs, the oldest university of Hungary, was founded in 1367. Hungary is also reputed to host cultural events like Sziget Festival. The Sziget Festival is the Hungar­ian for “Island” and is one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe. It is held every August in northern Budapest, Hungary, on Óbudai-sziget (“Old Buda Island”), a leafy 108-hectare (266-acre) island on the Danube. Did you know there are cowboys in Hungary? Horsemanship in Hungary has a long history, going back to the Magyars, the first Hungarians. They rode from central Asia to settle in present day Hungary. The tradition is best seen on the Great Plain (Puszta), a vast flat plain reminiscent of the American Old West. And no post on Hungary is complete, without mention of its famously delicious and flavor­ful Gulyásleves (gulyás is herdsman, leves is soup in Hungarian); a Hungarian soup, made of beef, vegetables, ground paprika and other spices. It originates from a dish cooked by the cattle­men (gulyás also means herdsman) whcT tended their herds in the Great Hungarian Plain, known as the Alföld or Puszta in Hun­­academicexchange. wordpress.com Május 23, 2014 ffl AMERIKAI lifagyar Hírlap garian. Google celebrated 40th anniversary of puzzle Google has celebrated the 40th birthday of the Rubik’s Cube on May 19. with an animated doodle that allows you to try to solves the puzzle online. The Rubik’s Cube was invented in 1974 by Erno Rubik, a Hungarian architect, who wanted a working model to help explain three-dimensional geom­etry. He fashioned the first cube him­self, hand-carving the ‘cubelets’. It took him one month before he was able to solve the Cube for himself. It was licensed to the Ideal Toy Corp in 1980 and, by January 2009, more than 350 million units had been sold worldwide, making it the biggest-selling toy of all time and a retro favourite for anyone who was young in the 80s. Every legally muddled cube is solvable in just 20 moves. There are in fact over 519 quintillion permutations of the cube (this is why the cube appeared on Google at the day 5/19) - that is, unique distributions of the 54 coloured squares over the six faces, google.com Hungarian brewery wins Alltech Commonwealth Craft Beer Cup Levente Gáti of Hungary accepted the Alltech Commonwealth Craft Beer Cup from Alltech President Pearse Lyons on behalf of brewer József Turoczi of ZipOs Brewhouse in Miskolc, Hungary. The brew­ery’s ZipOs Christmas 2013 Christmas Ale took the top prize. A small Hungarian brewery won a professional beer competition in Lexington on Saturday. Zip’s Brewhouse of Miskolc, Hungary, was awarded the Alltech Commonwealth Craft Beer Cup for its 2013 Christmas ale, according to an Alltech news release. The winner was named at the Alltech Craft Brews and Food Fest, which drew 41 national and local craft breweries and nearly 4,500 craft beer enthusiasts. In addition to the cup, 45 bronze, 36 silver and six gold medals were awarded. Blue Stallion Brewing Co. of Lexington won silver medals for its German Pilsner, Marzen and Oatmeal Stout, as well as a bronze for its Munich Dunkel Dark Lager. One thousand beers from 30 countries were entered in the contest. 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