Anti-Hungarian sentiment
It can involve hatred, grievance, distrust, intimidation, fear, and hostility towards the Hungarian people, language and culture.
During the existence of the Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia, the Banate of Bosnia was accused of holding the alleged Cathar anti-pope Nicetas.
[5] Later, in 1235, Hungary, with the justification of Pope Gregory IX would launch the Bosnian Crusade in order to subdue the Banate under its control.
[8] During the era of the Habsburg monarchs, the court in Vienna was influenced by Hungarophobia, but the Hungarian landowner nobles also showed signs of Germanophobia.
[9] In the 18th century, after the end of Rákóczi's War of Independence, many immigrants came to the underpopulated southern parts of the Kingdom of Hungary: for instance, 800 new German villages were established.
The Czechoslovak government deported more than 44,129 Hungarians from Slovakia to the Sudetenland for forced labor[16][17] between 1945 and 1948,[17] and the Beneš decrees remain legally in effect in the Czech Republic.
[22][23] After personnel changes in the presidium, SNS abandoned similar rhetoric and formed a common government with pro-Hungarian Most-Híd in 2016.
][citation needed] in Slovakia is based on historical stereotypes and conflicts in the common history as interpreted from nationalistic positions and recent events.
Other negative sentiments are related to the period of Magyarization, the policy of interwar Hungary, the collaboration of Hungarian-minority parties with the Hungarian government against Czechoslovakia, the First Vienna Award and the Slovak–Hungarian War.
[37] The Hungarian Human Rights Foundation said of new reforms legislated in December, 2023, 'We note with regret that the adopted law still does not allow the use of minority languages at the level of higher administrative units (district, county).
The law links linguistic rights to the concept of “traditional” settlement of the minority and sets the minimum level at 10%.
[40][41] The slurs Bozgor, Bozgoroaică and Bozgori are pseudo-Magyar terms of possible Romanian or Slavic origin describing Hungarians.
