The
Kingdom of Hungary was a
multilingual,
multiethnic and (as the meaning from the 19th century)
multinational country in
Central Europe covering what is today
Hungary,
Slovakia,
Transylvania (now part of
Romania),
Carpathian Ruthenia (now part of
Ukraine),
Vojvodina (now part of
Serbia),
Burgenland (now part of
Austria), and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders. From 1102 it also included
Croatia (except
Istria), being in
personal union with it, united under the Hungarian king. The kingdom existed for almost one thousand years (1000–1918 and 1920–1946) and at various points was regarded as one of the
cultural centers of
Europe.