Hungarian diaspora

The Hungarian diaspora or Magyar diaspora refers to ethnic Hungarians (Magyars) living outside the borders of present-day Hungary. The diaspora can be divided into two main groups.

The first group includes those who are autochthonous to their homeland, living in parts of neighbouring regions that were part of Hungary (Kingdom of Hungary) before the Treaty of Trianon. Following World War I, the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 led to the separation of 32% of ethnic Hungarians, along with many entirely Hungarian-populated regions, from their historical Hungarian motherland. Most of the anti-Hungarian sentiment and incidents still occur today in Hungary's neighboring countries (modern Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine), as their predecessor states received large historical Hungarian territories.

The other main group is the emigrants who have left Hungary at various times, and their descendants. Migrations increased during certain pivotal events, notably the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. There has been some emigration since Hungary joined the EU in 2004, especially to countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom, but those patterns have been less extensive than for certain other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, such as Poland and Bulgaria. Additionally, there are the Magyarabs, a small community in Nubia resulting from a historical migration of Magyars, likely during the Ottoman period in Hungary.