THE AGRICULTURAL SITUATION IN HUNGARY. 
When the old kingdom of Hungary was split up, the territories of 
Slovakia and Ruthenia on the north were incorporated in the Re- 
public of Czechoslovakia; Burgenland on the west was ceded to the 
Republic of Austria; Murji, Croatia Slavonia, and Voivodina on the 
south were incorporated in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and Tran- 
sylvania on the east was ceded to Rumania. Hungary as constituted 
by the peace treaties comprises the territory occupied by the Magyar 
peoples in the central part of what was the old Kingdom. 
GENERAL CHARACTER OF COUNTRY. 
Hungary, as constituted by the treaty of Trianon in June 1920, 
consists of what remained of the old Kingdom of Hungary after 
Fig. 2.— Map of old Hungary. 
segregating from it the territories that were ceded to Rumania on the 
east, to Yugoslavia on the south, to Austria on the west, and to 
Czechoslovakia on the north. The present total area is 36,887 
square miles. It has a population (1920) of 7,945,878, or 215 per 
square mile. Its capital, trie dual city of'Buda-Pest, Buda on the 
west bank, Pest on the east bank of the Danube River, lies on the 
parallel passing between Seattle and Tacoma, Wash. It has a popu- 
lation of about a million. 
The country occupies the great Hungarian plain through which 
two navigable rivers, the Danube and the Tisza, flow from north to 
south. Of the people occupying this plain, 88.4 per cent are of Magyar 
descent ; that is, direct descendants of the Huns who conquered this 
territory in the ninth century and who have continuously occupied 
it for over 1,000 years. Of the inhabitants 7 per cent are of German 
blood and 2 per cent are Slavs. 
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