2. o roughly three million ethnic Hungarians live in nearby countries o the country's geographical location is also a key reason o the current nature of Hungary's economy and society offers special opportunities to migrants, especially those from eastern Europe

3. o the present-day central and eastern European countries were parts of the Habsburg Empire o between the 1880s and World War I two million people left the country, primarily for economic reasons o World War II, subsequent peace treaties, evictions, and forced settlements resulted in further migration flows, significantly modifying the ethnic map in central and eastern Europe

6. o until 1950 it was only a suburban o stone mine is the name in HUN: stone extraction o production of grapes, wine cellars (Ó-hegy, Új-hegy, Csősztorony – Guardian tower protecting vine plants). o original Hungarian breweries; Perlmutter, Barber and the Klusemann - 1850 o pig farming (Mázsa street, Mázsa squere). o huge cellars under the district becauce of the stone mining– later used for breweries, champagne production o popular pleasure place among the people of center o sudden increase of population at the end of 1800 o Richter Gedeon was established in 1906 o EGIS was established in 1913 – both are pharmaceutical companies o Dreher brewery was established in 1862 – still the biggest brewery in Hungary o …and I moved here when I was 8 years old!

7. o Bulgarian o Gipsy o Greek – „greek benches” o Croatian o Polish – independent church o German o Romanian o Russian

8. More than 10.000 Polish people arrived to Budapest before the I. World War – they have worked in the stone mine. After they used the Church – Conti their relegious leader started to organize the construction of their own. Between the two World War the new Polish church was opened. AND STILL WORKING…

9. o 1880: agents collected the poor workers from the near contries: Slovakian, Russian and Polish for the first round o greek arrived later o factories and mills opened quickly, they need more factory workers within a fairly short period o they have got the promise of flat and long-term job opportunity

10. o before the socialism this district was rich in culture, in different kind of music groups and it was an unbelivable quater for every kind of pleasure -> o originally the name of the Lady and String street was Lady and Gentelman street Damen and Herren Promenad – you can imagine! o this already poor aera was full with hills and green gardens possibilities for trekking, picnic, walking and fishing as well! o and then we had the socialism, they built housing estates for everyone and uncountable concrete- jungle…

11. o Goulash o Palinka o Nice young people everywhere o Festivals; Volt, Sziget, Fishing on Orfű etc. o Wines o Paprika o 2 Michelin star restaurant: Onyx, Costes Let’s see what is the real life in Hungary…