In November 1847, the Pozsony Diet was opened by the emperor of the Austrian empire: Ferdinand. At that time, no one could have imagined this would be the last feudal Diet in Hungarian history. That ...

Most European countries have the Romans to thank for their wine industry. But Hungary, with nearly 100 varietals and 22 wine-growing regions, may predate even Julius Caesar. The written proof ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The bountiful creative milieu of 19th- and early-20th-century Paris, teeming with such artistic giants as Claude Monet, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso, ...

Flick through a Hungarian history book for high school students, and you’re left in no doubt about the government’s view on migrants. The section on “Multiculturalism” opens with a photo of refugees ...

Csaba Pal Szabo, director of a state-financed Trianon Museum, shows a poster during an interview with AFP journalists on May 25 in Szeged, Hungary. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images) Heather A.

Steve Inskeep talks to Stefano Bottoni, a historian at the Hungarian Academy of Science, about Hungary's past experiences of migration, and how that influences its present attitudes toward migrants.