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MAGYARS , the name of the dominant See also:

RACE

race in See also:

Hungary, or Hungarians proper. Though they have become physically assimilated to the western peoples, they belong in origin and See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language to the Finno-Ugrian (q.v.) See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the Ural-Altaic race. They See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form barely See also:

HALF

half of the See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of Hungary, but are by far the largest and most compact of all its racial See also:

groups. Magyar is the See also:

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official language of Hungary, the official name of which (Magyarorzag, or " See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country of the Magyars ") enshrines the Magyar claim to predominance. While all Magyars are properly Hungarians, all Hungarians are not necessarily Magyars. " Hungarian " may be used as a generic See also:

TERM

term covering all the various races of Hungary, while " Magyar " is strictly specific to a single See also:

GROUP

group. The Magyars themselves, indeed, sometimes apply the name Magyarorzag to Hungary " proper, " excluding Croatia-Slavonia, the whole See also:

KINGDOM

kingdom being called Magyarbirodalom, the Magyar See also:

MONARCHY (Fr. monarchic, from Lat. monarchia, Gr. uovapXia, rule of one, µbvos, alone, apXi7, rule)

monarchy or See also:

REALM

realm.

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