Romani people in Hungary are Hungarian citizens of Romani descent. According to the 2011 census, they comprise 3.18% of the total population, which alone makes them the largest minority in the country, although various estimations have put the number of Romani people as high as 8.8% of the total population. They are sometimes referred as Hungarian Gypsies, but that is sometimes considered to be a racial slur.
Romani orchestra in the 1890s, Kolozsvár (Cluj, Klausenburg)
Romani people in Hungary, painted by János Valentiny
Young Hungarian Romani dancing
Lungo Drom demonstrating on the anniversary of the 1956 revolution – 2013
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning 93,030 square kilometres (35,920 sq mi) of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary has a population of 9.6 million, mostly ethnic Hungarians and a significant Romani minority. Hungarian, a language belonging to the Ugric branch of the Uralic language family is the official language, and Budapest is the country's capital and largest city.
Roman provinces and barbarian peoples in and near the Carpathian Basin in the 2nd century AD
Hungarian raids in the 9–10th centuries
King Saint Stephen, the first King of Hungary, converted the nation to Christianity
The Holy Crown (Szent Korona), one of the key symbols of Hungary