hungary

After the Cold War, the economy of Hungary experienced a serious setback, when it shifted its economy back to being market-based, which was made even worse with the industry-killing wild-privatisation. If the shift would have went a bit more smoothly and after that, the reckless...

What if the Austro-Hungarian army remained on the defense on the Italian Front in 1918? Could the avoiding of the losses make Austria-Hungary win the OTL 3rd battle (Vittorio Veneto)? What happens after? Also, to improve a bit more the Austro-Hungarian situation, Austria-Hungary doesn't send...

What if John Hunyadi was less successful in mounting resistance in Belgrade (known to the hungarians as Nandofehervar) against the ottomans in 1456, leading to an Ottoman turkish capture of the city? IOTL, the failure of the Ottomans in capturing the city allowed Hungary to bounce back and annex...

What if the East Francian army had managed to defeat the Magyars at Pressburg, in 907 AD? Could this lead to a "pannonian crusade" of sorts? Is an East Francian Hungary in the cards?

In a scenario where Dunkirk was a massive disaster for the British, forcing them to sue for peace, and where Barbarossa resulted in the Third Reich pushing the USSR to the A-A line, what happens to the minor Axis Powers (Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, and Hungary)? How do they develop in a Nazi...

Family stories are sometimes salacious. Apparently, my husband’s great grandmother is a Hungarian royal bastard. Her mother, my husband’s 3x great grandmother worked for the royal family of Hungary. Supposedly as the hired help (cook or housekeeper) she was required to bed the King. When she...

Say Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary is even less fortunate with his offspring than IOTL-his daughter Anna dies aged five and Louis is not only mentally retarded but also of poor physical health and dies in summer 1513. Due to grief king dies the same year, in September. What does it mean...

So for whatever reasons, for example, less destructive Ottoman wars, no uprisings, quicker regeneration after Ottoman era, no inner customs frontier established by Maria Theresa, etc. Hungary (and eventually Austria-Hungary), population- and economy-wise is much more prominent, than OTL. However...

Change is simple-Elizabeth of Luxembourg is not pregnant when her husband, Albert Habsburg died on 27 October 1439. Thus Elizabeth could not hope that she'll give birth to a son who will inherit his father's and grandfather's thrones. Hungarians would still elect 15 years old Vladislaus III of...

If France does not fall, will Hungary join the war on Nazi Germany's side? Will they stay neutral or join the allies?

Dear friends, comrades. Many of you are aware of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. The uprising was mostly anti-Soviet. But was it anti-communist? The facts are very contradictory.

I must admit, I’ve overlooked the possibility for this match before or if it’s even likely, but here it is. The 14th century in the Holy Roman Empire was sort of a see-sawing between the Wittelsbachs and the Luxemburgs. It saw its last gasp at the imperial election where Sigmund of Luxemburg...

How could have Hungary appeased its minorities after the Ausgleich and before WW1 , so the Slovaks, Romanians and Serbs would have preferred to stay in the Kingdom? For me as a Slovak, the following conditions would seem reasonable and persuade me to stay in Hungary to Czechoslovakia, although...

This has been at the back of my head for a while now. How early can the Ausgleich happen? I've seen ideas that it could potentially have happened in 1848, if the Hungarians successfully take Vienna or the revolutions are more widespread in Austria. But what if we go a bit more back? Maybe...

Could the Croatian language standardise based on the Chakavian and the Slavonian language on the Kaykavian if Hungary remains intact, keeps and conquers Northern Serbia (Macva/ Syrmia South to the Danube) and the Great Serb Migration doesn't happen? If yes, what could be the consequences. Also...

A brief history lesson In OTL, Mary of Hungary, the daughter of Louis I, became the first ruling Queen of Hungary, due to a lack of suitable male heirs. Her mother, Bosnian-born noblewoman, former queen consort of Louis and now widow, Elisabeth Kotromanić, had something of a regent-like position...

1848 saw massive numbers of uprisings in Central Europe. Let us imagine that liberal Hungary successfully breaks off from Austria, Sardinia unifies Italy under a liberal constitution, and this convinces Kaiser Wilhelm I to take the offer of the Frankfurt assembly to ascend to the throne of a...

The Hungarian king doesn't fall ill during his campaign and leads the Crusaders to victory by defeating the Ayyubid armies and taking Jerusalem alongside with other forts. What are the consequences? What happens next?

King Béla IV of Hungary became very concerned, when in 1237, frier Julian warns him about the Mongol threat. For this reason, he temporarily ceased his recentralising efforts against the barons, and instead he began to concentrate on the fortifications of the passes of the Carpathian Mountains...

Between 1906 and 1913 Austria-Hungary spent around 190,8 million British Pound on her military and 37,8 million British Pound on her navy. What if Austria-Hungary spent significantly more? Let's raise the military budget by 50% to 286,2 million British Pound and the naval budget by 30% to 49,1...