Magyar Herald, 2000 (1. szám)

2000 / 1. szám

The earliest authentic written record of the Hungarian language is the Deed of Foundation of Tihany Abbey. It was written on parchment and issued by King Andrew I in 1055. The original is preserved in the archives at Pannonhalma. A copy can be viewed at the Abbey Museum in Tihany, itself a picturesque peninsula jutting out on Lake Balaton.

The number of non-Hungarians living in Budapest totaled 62,307 at the end of 1998, and one in every seven has been there for 10 years or more. The wave of immigrants peaked in 1989-1990 when 12,000 non-Hungarians asked for permanent (more then one year) residence each year. Of the non-Hungarians, 43,545 came from Europe, including 8516 from the EU member states. A breakdown of the immigrants is as follows: Yugoslavia and successor states, 3452; Poland, 1527; Romania, 20,075; former Soviet Union, 6499; Asia, 13,881 including 7,013 from China, and 1966 from the USA.

The palace of Attila, King of the Huns will be rebuilt on what is thought to be it’s original site on the Hungarian plain in Tapioszentmarton the mayor of the town said. The Hungarian news agency, MTI quoted Mayor Tóth Janos as saying that construction will start this year. The mayor further said that an account of Roman scholar Priscos and the archeological and historical research of Emo Blaskovich, a 19th century landowner, suggested the king’s palace stood near Tapioszentmarton. Attila swept into Europe in the 5th Century from the Asian steppes. The Hun’s terrorized the Roman Empire for decades, launching many raid campaigns from Hungary

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