Hungarian settlements in North America

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The Hungarian settlements in North America are those settlements, which were founded by Hungarian settlers, immigrants. Some of them still exist, sometimes their names were changed. The first greater Hungarian immigration wave reached North America in the 19th century, the first settlements were established at that time.

Settlements with Hungarian name[]

Settlements, whose name was changed[]

Settlements, where there is a significant Hungarian population[]

Hungarian Reformed Church, New York
  • Cleveland – Cleveland once was known as the second greatest Hungarian city outside Budapest. Cleveland and the neighboring area has about 130,000 Hungarian population.[3]
  • Fairport Harbor, Ohio – This village contains the highest percentage of Hungarian population, 11.5%. The current mayor, the fire department leader and the police chief all have Hungarian roots.
  • Yorkville, Manhattan – East 79th Street was the Hungarian Boulevard. On East 82nd Street stands the St. Stephen Catholic church and farther east on the same street the Hungarian Reformed Church.
  • New Brunswick, New Jersey – The Fifth Ward-Somerset Street has been the center of Hungarian-American life since the early part of the 20th century where there are many Hungarian institutions, including Magyar Bank, churches, kindergartens, schools, associations or folk dance ensembles and the annual Hungarian Festival.[4][5]
  • Edmonton, Alberta – In 2006 there lived 12 110 Hungarians.[6]
  • South Bend, Indiana – 3.3% of the population (3 559 persons) is Hungarian.
  • Toledo, Ohio – Since 1892 it has a large Hungarian community, in 2006 lived 6,093 Hungarians there.
  • Prince Rupert and Terrace, British Columbia – settlements which became home to refugees from the Sopron Faculty of Forestry in 1956 and since

Resources[]

  1. ^ Kossuthville, Florida
  2. ^ Congo – magyar település Amerikában
  3. ^ Hungarian americans of Cleveland
  4. ^ Weiss, Jennifer (July 14, 2006). "As New Brunswick Grows, City's Hungarians Adapt". The New York Times. Retrieved November 1, 2015. While the Hungarian community has diminished over the years — in the 1930s it made up a third of New Brunswick’s population — much of what it built remains.
  5. ^ "Welcome to Adobe GoLive 5". rutgers.edu. Retrieved November 1, 2015. Somerset Street. This is part of the Hungarian Neighborhood. New Brunswick has been called "the most Hungarian city in the US" because proportionately it once had more Hungarians than any other city. In 1915, out of a total population of 30,013, there were 5,572 Hungarians.
  6. ^ Government of Canada. "Ethnic origins, 2006 counts, for census subdivisions (municipalities) with 5,000-plus population – 20% sample data

See also[]

  • List of U.S. cities with large Hungarian American populations
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