Hungarian Transylvania [antikvár]

Introduction Transylvania is a part of the Carpathigin Basin, which is a compact geographical, economical and cultural unit inhabited by Hungarians since 896 A.D. After World War I, the Eastern part of Hungary, including Transylvania, Partium, Banat, and part of the Great Hungarian Plain was given to Rumania without the consent of the native Transylvanian Hungarians. Thus, the thousand year old Hungarian kingdom, and the long established economical, political and cultural unity of the Carpathian Basin was broken up, causing disruption, oppression, and economic hardship. (For more than one-thousand years Transylvanian metals, minerals and timbers were excellent exchanges for Hungarian grains, foods and manufactured goods.) The Hungarian population of Transylvania, which was and still is the largest nationality in the Carpathian Basin, was thrown into minority status under Rumanian occupation, and was forced to endure hard persecution, discrimination and injustice. During the last 62 years of Rumanian administration, hundreds of thousands Hungarians were forced to leave their ancestral homeland, deported or killed. Today, still 2.5 million strong, the native Hungarians of Transylvania are subjected to brutal economic oppression, large scale cultural genocide, rumanization under the dictatorship of the Rumanian Communist regime. From the following pages you shall see a short visual documentary of the Transylvanian Hungarians' history, their rights to their ancestral homeland, their cultural and economic contributions to the world civilization. For more than a millennium the Transylvaniein Hungarians have been the defenders of Christiandom, Western Civilization. Now, trampled down, they turn to the West for help. They should like to live in peace, educate their children in their native Hungarian culture. Please, help them to achieve their God given human and national rights.