| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| Republic in central Europe, bordered by the former Czechoslovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and south, Yugoslavia and Croatia to the south, and Slovenia and Austria to the west. Its capital and largest city is Budapest. | 1 |
| ‡ Hungary is a former Eastern Bloc country. | 2 |
| ‡ The Austro-Hungarian Empire, in which Austria and Hungary were equal partners, was established in 1867 and collapsed in World War I. | 3 |
| ‡ Soviet troops invaded Hungary in 1956 to put down a revolution against the communist government. | 4 |
| ‡ Hungary held multiparty free elections in October 1990, ending forty-two years of communist rule. In 1999, it joined NATO. | 5 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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