A more Hungarian Hungary.

With a pod after the the Hapsburg's regain all of Hungary at Treaty of Karlowitz, make the Hungarians in the Kingdom of Hungary (excluding the Croatian part) make up over 80% of the population by about 1850. How would that effect the country the Hapsburg's and Europe in general.
 
I don't see why everyone thinks this is impossible. You just need to have the Principality of Transylvania and OTL Slovakia gain de jure independence from the Kingdom of Hungary, and encourage assimilation of minorities in the rest of the Kingdom. However, I'm not sure if that's what the OP is looking for...
 
I don't see why everyone thinks this is impossible. You just need to have the Principality of Transylvania and OTL Slovakia gain de jure independence from the Kingdom of Hungary, and encourage assimilation of minorities in the rest of the Kingdom. However, I'm not sure if that's what the OP is looking for...

I want the majority of the people in dejure Kingdom of Hungary with Croatia to see them selfs as Hungarian, your point about assimilation is ok, but how would you able to do that, is my question
 
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Here's the notes from the full version of my flagship TL:

NOTES:
[1] Apologies to the Romanian members of AH.com who'll read this scenario because I slightly screwed Transylvania. Don't worry, however; only the northwest and north-center (around Cluj) were Magyarized in this TL; the rest, like southern Transylvania, Banat and Maramures, are still Romanian (and German)-dominated.
[2] The perpetrators of the infamous "Turan's Curse" stayed in the new kingdom and assimilated the local population through intermarrying; indeed, the ATL version of Turan's Curse was about the conversion of most of descendants of Arpad's confederation to Roman Catholicism, and not Eastern Orthodoxy as expected by the Turan Magyars.


What do the OP think?
 
not really.

Yes really. Depending on how far back you'll want this to happen then even still you would need a concerted effort by the overly powerful Nobility in the Diet to endorse a policy of Magyarization in Transylvania or anywhere else in the Kingdom for that matter. Such a policy as in OTL is only going to piss off the Romanian populations so expect resistance and so forth. Moreover such a policy pre 1848 nationalism is going against the grain of tolerance given to those ethnics who had agreed to settle in the sparsely populated Transylvanian region.

Really it's not impossible you just need to more or less stop the wars that every couple years turned Transylvania into a carnal house, and flood the region with landless Hungarian farmers turning them into smallholders. Again such a policy is going to need the endorsement of the Diet ergo the Upper House/Nobility so you gotta have a POD that breaks the cycle of self interest that the Magnates are known for.
 
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