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Magyarisation

Also known as Magyarization

Magyarisation was the policy of spreading the Hungarian language and identity among the non-Hungarian peoples of the Kingdom of Hungary, pursued especially after the Compromise of 1867. Measures such as the Apponyi school laws of 1907 required teaching in Hungarian, and many Slovak, Romanian and Serb cultural bodies were restricted or closed. It deepened the national tensions that helped break up the kingdom in 1918–1920.

Magyarisation
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Serbian VojvodinaKingdom of Hungary (1867-1918)

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