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The cultural, political, educational and historical relationships of the Magyars with their former national minorities are barely known outside the central and east european region, though they still resonate across today’s Hungarian borders, presenting a deeply troubled and contested discourse, with disputed national identities and incompatible narratives of nation at the core of these relationships. The Magyars of the Kingdom of Hungary were once the dominant power in the carpathian Basin, ruling a disparate group of national minorities, although the Magyars actually formed a ruling minority elite within the Kingdom. For the purposes of clarity in this paper I use Magyar for those of purely ‘Hungarian’ ethnic identity.