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  • Have you ever had a strange neighbor that moved into your block with no relatives around, had a weird accent

  • and had weird decorations posted all over the yard? Yeah, that's basically Hungary.

  • It's time to learn Geography...

  • ...NOW!

  • Everybody say hi to my friend Nick! You may have recognized him as the charming scientist from America's Got Talent. Say hi, Nick.

  • What's up, team?

  • So I knew Nick before all that stuff and I collabed with him on his Youtube channel - Nickipedia a while back.

  • Check it out, subscribe to his channel if you want.

  • What we did was really good, it was like micro to macro.

  • It was a really sciency concept, I thought it turned out great.

  • So, the cool thing is Nick is actually part hungarian. He's super proud of it.

  • He's been to Hungary, so today he's going to co-host with me.

  • Question: is there anything that I should know before we start?

  • Yeah, basically just don't be more likable than me or have better abs and you'll be fine.

  • POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

  • Hey, Nick...Yeah? Hungary is so eastern European, isn't it?

  • Yeah, they hate it when you say that and actually,

  • Hungary is a landlocked country located in Central Europe surrounded by 7 countries.

  • The nation is divided into 19 counties, whereas the capital Budapest acts as a separate administrative entity.

  • The largest cities are of course Budapest, Debrecen and Szeged.

  • However, the busiest airports are Budapest, Debrecen and Győr-Pér international.

  • Woah, you totally just took the animation narration.

  • Yes, yes I did.

  • I like this guy.

  • Now, you know me, I love border disputes, anomalies and territorial confusion

  • and although today Hungary actually doesn't really have any of those,

  • the interesting thing is that Hungarians like to claim that they are surrounded by themselves

  • due to the fact that there are high concentrated areas of Hungarians that live outside of Hungary and neighbouring nations.

  • This is because before World War I

  • Hungary was like a lot bigger and had a kingdom that spanned all the way from the Croatian coast

  • to a large chunk of what is now western Romania.

  • After World War I, the Treaty of Trianon cut up

  • over 70% of the land previously held by Hungary and seated it to its neighboring states,

  • which effectively cut off about a third of ethnic Hungarians still living in those areas.

  • Some of the largest concentrations are found in what is today the southern regions of Slovakia

  • and Szekely peoples in central Transylvania regions of Romania.

  • By the way Nick, fun side note, the comedian Louis "C.K" is actually part Hungarian,

  • but the C.K. part isn't his initials, but the pronunciation derived from Szekely.

  • Huhuh, I get it.

  • Otherwise the country is teeming with notable sights and landmarks such as St. Stephen's Basilica.

  • There's also Buda Castle

  • and the Visegrad Royal castle

  • Diósgyőr and Eger castle,

  • the Tomb of Gül Baba

  • Memento park,

  • the Cave Church,

  • the Citadela,

  • the Budapest Time Wheel,

  • the Bokod floating houses,

  • the Gorsium ancient ruins

  • and the country's most iconic building, the Hungarian Parliament.

  • Nick, you've been to Hungary. What do you recommend?

  • Definitely go to the geothermal baths.

  • Geothermal baths? Uuuh..

  • Super cool...

  • Speaking of geothermal activity...

  • PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

  • The more we progress to this episode the more you're going to kind of see how

  • incredibly distinct and set apart Hungary is from the rest of Europe.

  • For one, most of the entire country lies on the Pannonian Basin,

  • and sometimes called the Great Hungarian Plain,

  • nestled between the Carpathian Mountains and the Dinaric alps and the Balkan mountains on every side.

  • So basically Hungary is a bowl. Yes, I know Hungary, bowl - the pun possibilities are endless,

  • but we don't got time for that.

  • No pun this time. Gulyás in the bowl of Hungary.

  • Only about 2% of the country, mostly in the north,

  • is at 300 or more meters above sea level and the rest is mostly flat

  • in the largest grassland in Europe, the Hortobágy.

  • Otherwise, the two main and largest rivers the Danube and the Tisza are like the lifelines of Hungary as they travel north to south.

  • Just to skip away the largest lake in all of Central Europe - Lake Balaton,

  • sometimes referred to as the Hungarian sea. A strange thing about Hungary though

  • it would have to be the geothermal springs that can be found everywhere.

  • Budapest have more thermal springs than any other capital in the world.

  • Nick you're a scientist type of guy.

  • Tell them why there's hot springs in Hungary.

  • Sure. It's strange because there are no direct fault lines or rifts that pass through Hungary.

  • However, the area lies on a thermal basin not too far from the Eurasian plate that harbours geothermal activity

  • much like Yellowstone National Park in the US.

  • So what you're saying is you don't need to be on a fault line to have geothermal activity right?

  • Yes

  • But most distance spots from activity are not too far from a fault line. Nonetheless, is kind of like a "volcanic blister on Earth".

  • (I've learned something!) Otherwise the largest national park, Bükk, has eroded limestone karst formations

  • and nearby just to the west you can find the tallest mountain, Kekes, only about a 1000 m high.

  • Hungary has some the highest quality soil in all of Europe with over 51% arable land.

  • It allows them to grow a multitude of crops their favourite one being paprika or pepper.

  • PAPRIKA!

  • Although popular all over the Balkans, paprika is always affiliated with Hungary and Hungarian cuisine - they put it on

  • literally everything: chicken, fish, soup, sausage, even cake.

  • Speaking of which, some of the top Hungarian dishes might include:

  • Poppy seed rolls, stuffed cabbage and peppers, langos

  • Porkolt, Kürtoskalacs, sour cherry soup and the national dish everyone knows about - ‎Gulyás

  • commonly pronounced Goulash which I ate at every Christmas.

  • And keep in mind almost all these dishes we just mentioned have Paprika in them.

  • Speaking of which,

  • I was told you are not Hungarian unless you love Túró Rudi candy bars.

  • Mmm. Túró Rudi. You love those? Huge fan. Oh okay.

  • Huge! Confirmed.

  • So that's that Hungary's land make up.

  • Now we reach the most strangest and most interesting part: the people

  • DEMOGRAPHICS

  • Hey, Nick

  • Yeah

  • Hungarians are such interesting Slavs aren't they?

  • And that kids is the number one thing to avoid saying to Hungarian.

  • First of all, the country has about 10 million people and has the largest linguistically isolated people group in Europe.

  • Hey, men.

  • Good dude. Yeah, never better.

  • Now this is where things get a little tricky because like we said in the Czech Republic or Czechia episode,

  • the Hungarian census doesn't mandate racial identification upon registration

  • so what the report says might be a little different from what the actual numbers are but what it does say,

  • about 86% of the country's ethnically Hungarian,

  • somewhere around five percent are Romani or Gypsy and the rest are kind of unspecified.

  • It speculated though that the unspecified group is most likely made up of Slovaks, Romanians, German Serbes, Poles

  • and why not a few Greeks, Turks, Armenians and probably some more Gypsies.

  • Also, they use the Hungarian Forint, not the Euro despite being in the European Union,

  • They use the type C outlet and they drive on the right side of the road.

  • Now let's get some stuff straight: Who exactly are the Hungarians?

  • For one, Hungarians have roots that are technically not even originally from Europe.

  • According to legend, there were two brothers: Magor and Hunor. Hunor was the father of the Huns

  • Magor was a father of the Hungarians or the Maygar people. And they were maybe both sons of the tower babel guy from the Bible.

  • This is just what the story claims.

  • The Huns came in and took over the area in the 5th century

  • but were eventually expelled.

  • After the Roman empire and Germanic tribes stuff, yada yada yada

  • The Magyar tribes came in around the ninth century from what most historians speculate the central Asian steppe regions

  • far East past the Ural mountains in Russia.

  • It is believed they came in to reclaim the lost land of their cousins.

  • This guy unified the tribes and thus the first proto Hungarian state was born

  • from outsiders from Asia.

  • So Nick that means you might have some central Asian blood in you.

  • Nice

  • Does that mean I get a free pass and make some Asian jokes?

  • You get to make light Asian jokes at the expense of your Hungarian heritage.

  • What do you call a fifth century central Asian guy named Gary?

  • What?

  • Hun-gary!

  • After the proto Hungarian state was established history kind of went like this: Kings, Christianity, Mongols attacked twice, Turks, Habsburgs,

  • 1848 Revolution, Empire with Austria, World War I Treaty of Trianon, World War II, join the Axis, bad idea.

  • Soviets come in and BAM! Eastern Bloc Communism,

  • 1956 Revolution, Soviets retaliate, self-Communism

  • 1980 end of Communism and finally the EU. Done.

  • The Hungarian language is strange. The only two relatives that exist

  • are the Khanty and Mansi languages found the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

  • far east pass Ural mountains in Russia.

  • Now because this place was the birthplace of all Uralic languages, that means it's possible

  • that the Finns and Estonians might be far-off distant cousins of the Hungarians.

  • But it's so far often its remote that it's kind of like that one black guy that shows up at your family reunions

  • that you have no idea how you're related to.

  • I actually have two of those. What up Charlie and Andrei.

  • Eventually the people developed Hungarian Turanism

  • in the 19th and 20th centuries as a counter movement against the domineering

  • Pan-German and Pan-Slavic cultures

  • or just Europeans in general that surrounded them.

  • It all had to do with embracing their identity that tied them with Central Asia.

  • They take it pretty seriously. Some places even use the ancient Hungarian Rovás or runic script on city billboards.

  • In 2007, they even started the Kurultaj, an event that invades Central Asian Steppe nomadic peoples

  • in the first week of August with the intention to bind closer with their far-off distant cultural relatives.

  • People from Mongolia to Uzbekistan even South Korea show up every year and participate. Otherwise

  • Hungarian culture in itself today is saturated with unique customs and traditions. There are too many to mention but some universal ones include

  • Splashing women with water on Easter Monday

  • or how on St. Nicholas day kids put out their boots to get gifts

  • or how they throw lentils at each other on New Year's.

  • Don't forget the Buso mask Festival

  • or how bride will get kidnapped after her wedding and the groom has to perform a task to get her back.

  • The kidnappings, they're so beautiful.

  • Yeah, just wait till we get to the Kyrgyzstan episode.

  • One sport Hungarians love is water polo.

  • They have the best performance at the world water polo cup.

  • Even though they are landlocked, they are amazing in the water.

  • We are, we're like ducks.

  • Music has always played a huge role in Hungary since classic times to the modern Sziget festival,

  • one of the largest and most popular in all of Europe.

  • Otherwise some notable people of Hungarian descent might include people like:

  • Rubik Arno, Victor Orban, Piero Laszlo, Robert Capa, Harry Houdini, John von

  • Neumann, Maria Telkes, Zsa Zsa Gabor.

  • Bela Lugosi, although the Romanians might claim him too,

  • as well as numerous scientists, artists, musicians and athletes

  • scientists, right here.

  • Alright Nick, ready to close it down with one more segment. Let's do it: The Friend Zone!

  • FRIEND ZONE

  • Now Hungary might have an isolated culture, but definitely not an isolated social status

  • Definitely a popular kid. Yeah

  • First of all. They like to call Austria their brother-in-law

  • Because even though things got ugly a few times and yes the Habsburgs did try to kind of germanize them

  • so much history in cooperation has linked these two.

  • They even teamed up and opened their borders to East Germany to help the people escape to the west side during cold war times.

  • Now despite the Ottoman times, Turkey is actually kind of the wild-card friend that you wouldn't expect

  • not only because they have distant technical ancestral lines

  • But Turkey also left its mark by leaving various historical sites and buildings in Hungary.

  • They also take part in the Kurultaj and trade is cordial.

  • Finland and Estonia are kind of like the new curious, I guess, maybe were related cousins.

  • They never really thought about each other until just a few centuries ago.

  • They encounter maybe once a year and just kind of nod with a small smirk when they're in the presence of each other.

  • Now, when it comes to their best friend,

  • Nick, I've heard a lot of things from other Hungarians.

  • Who do you think is the best friend of Hungary?

  • Paprika!

  • Of countries?

  • Ohh?!

  • Poland! Yes!

  • They even have a Polish-Hungarian friendship day on March 23rd. Both countries have shared ties since the middle ages.

  • Their rulers often intermarried and exchanged headship, they fought numerous battles together side by side,

  • support each other's revolutions, struggled together under soviets and came out together even closer than ever.

  • In conclusion, pretty much all of Europe has some kind of consistency in terms of land regions and people groups.

  • But then you get this strange geothermal basin with Central Asian descended,

  • weird-talking people that kind of just came out of nowhere, whom would eventually build an identity and story that would last through the ages.

  • Stay tuned, Iceland is coming up next.

  • Allright, let's get some lunch. You're hung-a-ry.

  • Ahh!

Have you ever had a strange neighbor that moved into your block with no relatives around, had a weird accent

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地理現在!匈牙利(英尺尼克-烏哈斯/尼克百科)。 (Geography Now! Hungary (ft. Nick Uhas/ Nickipedia))

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