If sometimes you're feeling a bit confused about the incredible number of ethnic groups and nations in Eastern-Central Europe, don't worry! It really is very complicated and has always been. In addition, it's always an incredibly delicate question....
The good old Austro-Hungarian Empire used to be the melting pot of minorities. Although most of the time (not always), the Hungarian represented the majority, a considerable number of different ethnicities lived more or less peacefully together: Germans, Romanians, Jews, Serbs, Gypsies, Croats, Székely (the inhabitants of Transylvania) and so on and so forth.
