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From: RICHARD CAMAUR <>
Subject: Re: [HUNGARY-L] Re: United States from Hungary, how or from what country?
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 08:47:58 -0500


Until post-World War I, Hungary was not a landlocked country. Its major
port was Fiume (today Riejka). However, until the beginning of the 20th
century, virtually all passengers who migrated from Hungary to the United
States left from north European ports, such as Hamburg, Bremen, Le Havre;
some left from Rotterdam and Liverpool. In 1903 the Royal Hungarian
Government licensed the British Cunard Line to handle migration traffic
from Fiume. Therefore, increasingly prior to World War I people migrating
from Hungary used Fiume, or Trieste, Austria's major port. Fiume and
Trieste were absorbed by the successor states of Italy and Jugoslavia with
the collapse and dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Remeber,
before World War I, Hungary was made up of 65 counties; after World War I,
only 19. 46 former Hungarian counties are now parts of Slovakia, Ukraine,
Romania, Croatia and Slovenia.

Richard Camaur

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