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[-] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Fun fact I read once: The most common last name in Hungary is not Magyar but actually Horvath. Which in Hungarian means "Croat".

~~And Croatia is not even a directly neighboring country anymore. So it'd be like the most common name in America being Johnny Guatemala~~.

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

And another preeeetty common one is Tóth which is just archaic for Slovakian.

[-] bokster@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 5 months ago

What do you mean 'Croatia is not even a directly neighboring country anymore'?

Last I checked, Croatia and Hungary still share almost 350 km of border.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think they were trying to say that Croatia is no longer part of the same dominion as Hungary (Croatia was never part of Hungary, but was a vassal state of the Crown before WWI).

[-] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you for the kind presumption, but I actually fucked it up and scrambled up my geography, @bokster@lemmy.sdf.org was right to correct me. I looked at a map before I wrote that, too, and I still read it wrong. I'm not even sure what i thought was between them...

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

As someone who grew up within cycling distance of that very border, no worries, that part of the world is confusing.

When I had elementary school geography, we were taught a different status quo on how the Balkan countries are, and the teachers back then were getting it wrong on instinct and were correcting themselves regularly because they were taught yet another one.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

One of my grandmothers' surname was the name of a city in a country that no one in that family came from as far back as we can trace.

All we can think is that, over the centuries of European conquest, that country conquered the country they lived in and gave my ancestor that surname.

[-] Redex68@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Croatia stronk. We have more people that emigrated outside of our country than stayed in it.

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