Hungarianization

Hungarianization

English

Etymology

Hungarian +‎ -ization

Noun

Hungarianization (uncountable)

1. the act of making Hungarian.
   • 1995, András Gerő, Modern Hungarian Society in the Making: The Unfinished Experience, Central European University Press (→ISBN), page 195:

     The Hungarian liberals - because of Habsburg rule which threatened Germanization, and the only gradually diminishing preponderance of other nationalities - demanded the Hungarianization of the Jews with the utmost vigour.

   • 2002, Z. Dragoș, Transylvania, late 20th century: Romanians hunted down in their own coutntry, page 10:

     The forced Hungarianization of the Romanians who lived along the Szecklers and the Hungarians, represented the basic element of an unscrupulous expansionist policy.

   • 2017, Gwen Jones, Chicago of the Balkans: Budapest in Hungarian Literature 1900-1939, Routledge (→ISBN), page 8:

     This was the era the of assimilation, Hungarianization, and rapid urbanization, the increase in the proportion of the total population and in urban settlements.