Vienna, known in
Hungarian as
Bécs, was the seat of the Royal Court of King
Matthias Corvinus of Hungary in 1485–1490. Hungarians established a community in Vienna from 1541 following the 1526
battle of Mohács. Towards the end of the 17th century the city became a key cultural center for Hungarians. In 1920 the Hungarian Historical Institute in Vienna was founded, and in 1924 the Collegium Hungaricum was founded, both originally located in the
Palais Trautson. After
World War II the population sharply decreased again, as the
Soviets used force to repatriate key workers of Hungarian or Czech origin to return to their ethnic homelands to further the
Soviet Bloc economy. However, refugees from Hungary increased the numbers again in
1945, 1948 and
1956. The Viennese Jewish community has encouraged Hungarian Jews from Budapest to resettle in Vienna due to fears over the rise of the far-right
Jobbik party, a climate of
nationalism and
xenophobia, and an economic recession. Disagreement exists within Jewish communities in Austria and Hungary over the extent to which Hungarian-Jewish emigration from Hungary is due to economic problems or due to antisemitism. As of 2017, Vienna was home to almost 27,000 Hungarians. ==See also==