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Hungarus (or "Natio Hungarica", "Natio Hungarorum") was a term to name the people of the Kingdom of Hungary irrespectively of their ethnic background. Hungary in the late Middle Ages was not a nation state in the modern sense of the word, but a multiethnic country, inhabited by Hungarians, Croats, Romanians, Ruthenes and Slovaks, in which the Hungarian nobility held the dominant position. This situation was not unique, for the medieval period does not offer examples of national states. These terms should be viewed basically as indicators of geographic and not ethnic origin. An individual belonged to the "Hungarian Nation" if he or she resided under the authority of the king of Hungary (i.e., in the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen).
References
- ^ Ludanyi, Andrew (1983). "The Multiethnic Character of the Hungarian Kingdom in the Later Middle Ages; THE NATIO HUNGARICA, by L.S. DOMONKOS". Transylvania, THE ROOTS OF ETHNIC CONFLICT. THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS. ISBN 0-87338-283-8.
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