Slovaks in Hungary are the minority in Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

. The number of people belonging to the Slovak

Slovaks

The Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...

 national minority is estimated to be from 17,692 (according to provisional results of the 2001 census), to 56 107 Slovak speakers

Slovak language

Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...

 and 110,000 (according to minority organisations and Hungarian ministry of foreign affairs). According to this dates the population of the Slovaks in Hungary ranging from 0,18% to 1,1% from the whole Hungarian population.

History

The presence of the Slovak minority in Hungary mainly dates back to the 17th and 18th century when they started settling in the northern parts of Hungary and developed strong mutual language contact with the Hungarians and later expanded to the southern counties. Following a period of Slovak demand for autonomy within Hungarian territory rivalries between Slovaks and Hungarians arose. With the Treaty of Trianon

Treaty of Trianon

The Treaty of Trianon was the peace agreement signed in 1920, at the end of World War I, between the Allies of World War I and Hungary . The treaty greatly redefined and reduced Hungary's borders. From its borders before World War I, it lost 72% of its territory, which was reduced from to...

 Kingdom of Hungary lost a significant part of its Slovak-speaking territory - Upper Hungary

Upper Hungary

Upper Hungary is the usual English translation for the area that was historically the northern part of the Kingdom of Hungary, now mostly present-day Slovakia...

. According to Hungarian data from 1900 it was 192 200 Slovaks in the territory of present-day Hungary (2.8 % of total population). In the opinion of Slovak demographers, between 500 000 - 550 000 Slovaks remained in truncated Hungary after World War I. According to Hungarian census 399 176 people spoke Slovak (5 %) in 1920. The population movement from Hungary to Slovakia

Czechoslovak-Hungarian population exchange

The Czechoslovak-Hungarian population exchange was the exchange of inhabitants between Czechoslovakia and Hungary after World War II. Around 45,000 Hungarians were deported from Czechoslovakia to Hungary, while around 72,000 Slovaks transferred from Hungary to Czechoslovakia.-Post-war...

that took place after 1920 was repeated after World War II when about 73,000 Slovaks resettled from Hungary to Slovakia.