Business and EconomicsURL: http://www.exportall.com/countries/hungary/categories/doing_business.htm In English. This site provides links to several country profiles for Hungary such as the State Department's Country Commercial Guide and Ernst and Young's Doing Business in ... site. There are also links to some Hungarian governmental agencies that deal with economics and business. Exportall is a Dutch site relating to international business and export sponsored by the Dutch Export Consultancy and Worldwide Info Search. URL: http://www.hudir.hu/hudir/Kereskedelem_uzletek/ This is the commerce and business category from the gateway HuDir. In Hungarian. Contains links to sites in English and Hungarian. URL: http://www.mnb.hu/ In Hungarian and English. This is the homepage of the Hungarian National Bank. It provides information about the operation of the bank and some financial statistics. Also available here are many of the Bank's publications and press releases either in html or .pdf format. There are links to other banking sites in Hungary as well. CultureURL: http://www.port.hu/kultura/index_a.htm In Hungarian and English. This site is dedicated to Hungarian culture. It contains basic cultural information on Hungary and a calendar of events. Particularly useful are the numerous links organized by subject which can also be searched in both English and Hungarian. A search in Hungarian produces a greater number of hits and the Hungarian version of the page has more information. The search component in Hungarian requires Hungarian fonts. URL: http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/links/link-hungarian.htm Mostly in English. This site contains a list of links pertaining to various aspects of Hungarian culture. The links are all briefly annotated for content. DictionariesURL: http://www.sztaki.hu/services/engdict/index.jhtml In English. This on-line dictionary can be searched with or without Hungarian fonts. For no-font searhing check the box to ignore accents or use punctuation marks in place of diacritics according to the key given in the bottom frame. The dictionary is supported by the Hungarian Free Software Foundation and the Hungarian Electronic Library. Educational InstitutionsMost of the Hungarian search engines and directories also will provide lists of universities and schools. URL: http://www.port.hu/kultura/hasznos/index_a.htm In English and Hungarian. This is a list of links for educational institutions in Hungary produced by the Hungarian Culture Home Page. URL: http://www.mta.hu/ In English and Hungarian. This homepage of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences contains information about the history and structure of the organization. It has contact information and links to its member institutes. There is also a link to the Library of the Academy of Sciences. URL: http://www.fsz.bme.hu/hungary/c_edu.html In English and Hungarian. This is a list of links for educational institutions in Hungary produced by the directory Hungarian Home Page. GenealogyMany of the big genealogy sites such as Cyndi's List have sections pertaining to Eastern Europe and/or specific countries or ethnic groups. Try some of them for additional sites on Hungarian genealogy. Also, don't overlook the FEEFHS, Federation of East European Family History Societies, which is described in the General Resources section of our site. URL: http://www.bogardi.com/gen/ In English. This site was created and maintained by a professional genealogist in Hungary named Janos Bogardi. Although he offers some of his services for a fee, his site contains many useful items for free.For example, he has scanned an 1882 Hungarian gazeteer and numerous maps. There are also many links to other helpful sites on archives, Hungarian history, mailing lists, family pages, etc., as well as an archive of historical photographs of Hungary. This site has been named a Family History Favorite by Ancestry.com. Government and LawURL: http://www.mkogy.hu/ In English and Hungarian. There is a great deal of information on the Hungarian government in Hungarian, including detailed biographical entries on every member of Parliament and their party affiliations. The English language information is sketchy. There is information on the various Hungarian political parties and on the Parliament. URL: http://www.kancellaria.gov.hu/index_e.html In English and Hungarian. This site has information about the office of the Prime Minister and its members, including a short biography of the current Prime Minister and links to many of his speeches and interviews. There are also many links to other Hungarian government sites. The Hungarian version of the page has more information than the English version. The search component on the Hungarian version requires Hungarian fonts. URL: http://www.kormany.hu/ In English and Hungarian. This site has information about the current government. There is a calendar of meetings and many links to various ministries and offices in the government. The search component is currently inoperative. URL: http://www.ksh.hu/pls/ksh/docs/index_eng.html In English or Hungarian. This site contains links to summaries of brief reports on Hungarian statistics, major annual figures, the most recent data submitted by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, information about major publications, and a glossary of statistical terms. Some census data from 1996 is available in .pdf format. URL: http://www.hpo.hu/ In Hungarian and English. This site provides information about laws related to patents and trademarks. There are biographies of Hungarian inventors and links to the Patent Library and other relevant organizations. In addition, there is access to many patent and industrial property databases. The search component can be used to search the entire site or just the laws and regulations section. Other options include searching in either English or Hungarian and with or without Hungarian fonts. URL: http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/hungary.html In English. This site which is maintained by the Law Library of Congress provides links to sites with information about Hungarian law and government. Libraries and ArchivesSearch engines and directories are usually good tools for producing lists of libraries. See below for the list generated by HuDir. URL: http://www.oszk.hu/mnbkb/ In English and Hungarian. At this site the latest issues of the Bibliography of Books of the Hungarian National Bibliography are available in an electronic version. The bibliography is published by the National Szechenyi Library in Budapest. URL: http://www.oszk.hu In English, German and Hungarian. This is the web site of the National Szechenyi Library in Budapest. At this site there is a wealth of information and databases. There are pages for general information, the history of the library, descriptions of the collections, and access to the telnet version of the on-line catalog. It contains titles acquired by the library on legal deposit published after 1991. Special fonts are not required for searching. A number of interesting databases are available such as Hungarian Biographical Information, the Hungarian Electronic Library (MEK), Hungarica Information (bios on Hungarian emigres, and Hungarica WWW (library resources for Hungarica outside Hungary). URL: http://pollux.bibl.u-szeged.hu/mke_eksz/opac.html In Hungarian. This is a listing of Hungarian library online catalogs from the Hungarian Electronic Library (MEK). URL: http://w3.oszk.hu/ikb_h.htm In Hungarian. This link leads to the Hungarian Periodical Database at the National Szechenyi Library. It contains titles since 1986. Hungarian fonts are not required for searching. Search results can be displayed in a full format by clicking on the cimkes formatum button. URL: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/euro1.html#hu This is a list of links to archives in Hungary produced by the Special Collections and Archives division of the Library at the University of Idaho. URL: http://www.lib.uni-miskolc.hu/lib/archive/kapcsolat/ukanIndex/h4levtar.htm This is a list of archive links in Hungary produced by the University of Miskolc in Hungary. URL: http://www.lib.uni-miskolc.hu/lib/archive/kiadv/magylevt/folap.htm This is the on-line version of a directory for Hungarian archives published in paper format in 1996 by Magyar Leveltarosok Egyesulete. It is available at the University of Miskolc web site. It has been translated into German. See the link directly beneath this one. URL: http://www.lib.uni-miskolc.hu/lib/archive/kiadv/archiven/inhalts.htm This is the on-line version of the German translation of a directory for Hungarian archives published in paper format in 1996 by Magyar Leveltarosok Egyesulete. It is available at the University of Miskolc web site. MapsURL: ; http://lazarus.elte.hu/ In Hungarian and English. This site contains the Map Pages put up by the Department of Cartography at Eotvos University in Budapest. There is quite a lot of information about maps in general and about what maps have been published as well as many actual scanned maps, including some historical ones. There is even an article about the use of maps in the contemporary Hungarian mass media. The Hungarian version of the site seems to contain more maps than the English version. MediaMost of the Hungarian search engines and directories will also provide lists of journals, newspapers, radio and television stations as well as other media sites. URL: http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/virtual/magyar/efolyir/ In Hungarian and English. This is a list of Hungarian e-journals arranged by broad subject category compiled by MEK, the Hungarian Electronic Library. There are also links to the Hungarian Periodical Database and the Ujssagosstand media portal. URL: http://www.thepaperboy.com/ In English. This is a list of Hungarian newspapers available on the web that was compiled by The Paperboy, a news portal. The city and language of publication are indicated. Phone and Email DirectoriesURL: http://www.teldir.com/eng/euro/hu Telephone Directories for Hungary. URL: http://www.matav.hu/tudakozo/index_e.html In Hungarian and English. This is a phone directory for individuals in Hungary produced by the phone company MATAV. Hungarian fonts are required for searching, but there is a page that enables searching without fonts. Apostrophes and other punctuation marks are used instead of diacritics.< Political PartiesURL: http://www.hudir.hu/hudir/Allam_kormanyzat_szervezetek/ This is a list of links for Hungarian political resources generated by the gateway HuDir. URL: http://www.politicalresources.net/hungary.htm >This is a large group of links put together by the site Political Resources on the Net. It includes links to the sites of many Hungarian political parties as well as to those of governmental and news agencies. ReligionURL: http://w3.swi.hu/biblia/ In Hungarian. This site contains the Gaspar Karoli translation of the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, on-line. Search Engines and DirectoriesURL: http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/Hungary.html In English. Search Engine Colossus is a directory site of search engines and directories for countries around the world. Here is their listing for Hungary. URL: http://www.fsz.bme.hu/hungary/qetc.html In English and Hungarian. This site has a list of search engines and links to pages about the Internet development in Hungary. URL: http://www.bl.uk/collections/easteuropean/hunlink.html In English. This is a list of selected Hungarian internet resources compiled by the British Library. The links are organized by subject with some very brief annotations. URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/european/hungary/hu.html In English. This is a list of selected Hungarian internet resources compiled by the Library of Congress. There are no annotations, but the links are organized by subject. Women's IssuesURL: http://www.tfk.elte.hu/hirnok/ In Hungarian. This site covers many aspects of women's issues from a Hungarian perspective. There are articles on feminism, cultural life, politics, etc. There is also information about Hungarian email lists related to women's issues and a bibliography of current publications. |
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