Hungary

State · 1947–2026 CE · at its largest around 1996 CE

Central European state, which became a Communist people's republic and then a parliamentary democracy after 1989. It joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004.

On its lands while it lasted

• Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (1956 CE): A nationwide revolt against Hungary's communist government and Soviet control broke out in Budapest in October 1956. Soviet forces crushed it in November.

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