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Budapest History
Budapest the city of Hungary has a very intersting history.The Carpathian Basin, in which Hungary lies, has been populated by successive peoples for hundreds of thousands of years. A blend of Celts, Romans, Huns, Mongols, Turks, Slovaks, Austrians, Germans and Russians, have re-forged and distilled Hungary's identity many times over.Magyars, as Hungarians call themselves, are part of the Finno-Ugric group of peoples, who originated from western Siberia. It is believed that one group of Magyars, fleeing attack, established themselves on Csepel Island and Óbuda when Pest and Buda were no more than small villages.The country became a province of the Austrian Habsburg Empire, thus beginning a period of enlightened absolutism. Hungary blossomed economically and culturally, as did nationalism.In 1947, rigged elections brought the Communists to power. The nation was then rocked irrevocably by the 1956 Uprising, an anti-Soviet revolution in Budapest, which left thousands dead after brutal Russian military retaliation. Many buildings around Pest to this day bear pockmarks and holes from the bloody showdown. However, continuing unemployment, a soaring inflation rate and mounting debt saw Kádár ousted in 1988. The celebrated Soviet troop withdrawal from Hungary in June 1991 soon saw the first free elections in more than four decades. In April 2002, Hungarians tired of their right-wing government and its bullish nationalist rhetoric despite the strong economic growth it had managed to achieve, and voted the Socialists into power. Hungary joined NATO and became a full participant in the EU in 2004, with adoption of the euro set for 2006 at the earliest.
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