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Hungary (; ; ), officially in English the Republic of Hungary (Magyar
Köztársaság , literally Magyar (Hungarian) Republic), is a landlocked
country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria,
Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is
Budapest. Hungary is a member of OECD, NATO, EU and a Schengen state. The
official language is Hungarian, part of the Finno-Ugric family, thus one of
the three official languages of the European Union that is not of
Indo-European origin.
Following a Celtic (after c. 450 BC) and a Roman (9 BC - c. 4th century)
period, the foundation of Hungary was laid in the late Ninth Century by the
Magyar chieftain Árpád, whose great grandson István ascended to the throne
with a crown sent from Rome in 1000. The Kingdom of Hungary existed with
minor interruptions for more than 900 years, and at various points was
regarded as one of the cultural
