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The Natio Hungarica or Natio Hungarorum was a term for the people of the Kingdom of Hungary irrespective of their ethnic background, and is thus an indication of geographic status and not ethnic origin. However, the Latin term, natio Hungarica referred only to those groups with the right to representation in the diet: the nobility, the Catholic clergy, and a few enfranchised burghers. The Hungarian Kingdom was not a nation state in the modern sense of the word, but a multiethnic country, inhabited by Hungarians, Croats, Germans, Romanians, Ruthenes, Serbs and Slovaks, in which the Hungarian nobility held the dominant position. This situation was not unique as the medieval period does not offer examples of nation states. An individual belonged to the "Hungarian Nation" if he or she resided under the authority of the King of Hungary, in the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen.

References

Notes

1. ^ Ludanyi, Andrew; Cadzow, John F.; Elteto, Louis J. (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. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
2. John M. Merriman, J. M. Winter, Europe 1789 to 1914: encyclopedia of the age of industry and empire, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006, p. 140, ISBN 978-0-684-31359-7

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Further reading

• Maxwell, Alexander (2005). Multiple Nationalism: National Concepts in Nineteenth-Century Hungary and Benedict Anderson's “Imagined Communities. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Volume 11, Issue 3. doi:10.1080/13537110500255619.

• History of Hungary
• Kingdom of Hungary
• Medieval Hungary