Transylvania. together with the Banat and the CrisanaKorosregions belonged for a thousand years to the Kingdom of Hungary forming a province rich in cultural achievements and political talent. Much of the Crisana and the northern and eastern parts of Transylvania were also reallotted to Hungary under the Second Vienna Award of 1940. Hungarian settlements in the area go back a milennium. while much of the Rumanian population immigrated during the Turkish times and their aftermath in Rumania proper to Transylvania. The Hungarian minority in Transylvania still numbers 1.6 million. despite decades of romanization policies first of the Royal Rumanian Government. 191940. and then the Peoples Republic of Rumania after 1946. It is true. however. that romanization policies had some success. as the same minority counted 1.8 million people in 1910 and natural increase in 54 years would have been at least 400.000.
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