Hungarian Uruguayans

Hungarian composer Francisco José Debali, author of the music of the National Anthem of Uruguay.

Hungarian Uruguayans are people born in Hungary who live in Uruguay or Uruguayan-born people of Hungarian descent.

Overview

Hungarian Uruguayans are a local ethnic minority; their presence is small but meaningful, numbering around 2,000-3,000 of which ca. 150 were born in Hungary.[1]

In 1925 was established a Society of Hungarian-Language Workers in Uruguay[2] They even had some influence within the Communist Party of Uruguay.[2]

In 1936, Hungarian migrants established the Hungarian Home of Uruguay (Hungarian: Uruguayi Magyar Otthon), an ethnic association.[3]

There is also a small Jewish-Hungarian community,[4] they established their own association in the 1920s.[5]

There is an immigrant branch of the Batthyány noble family.[6]

Notable Hungarians in Uruguay

See also

References

  1. ↑ Opportunities for Hungarian-Uruguayan relations (in Hungarian)
  2. 1 2 Hungarian workers in Latin America (in Spanish)
  3. ↑ Uruguayi Magyar Otthon (in Hungarian)
  4. ↑ Christoph Marx; Christine Hatzky; Waltraud Kokot; Hauke Dorsch (2004). Periplus 2004: Jahrbuch für Aussereuropäische geschichte. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 22. ISBN 978-3-8258-7820-7.
  5. ↑ Hungarian Israeli Community of Uruguay (in Spanish)
  6. ↑ The history of the Batthyány family (in Hungarian)
  7. ↑ Hungarians in Latin America (in Hungarian)


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