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History of the community
The pen, the deodorant, the washing machine and the automatic box of the cars are just some of the inventions that the Hungarian immigrant Laszlo Biro left us as a legacy. I discovered the strong ties that unite us with this community and also find out how the "Inventor's Day" came about in our country.
The greatest flow of immigration occurred, as in many other communities, in the times of the First and Second World War. The majority were peasants, people with a trade who came with the desire to cultivate the land, which is why they settled in the interior of the country, especially in Córdoba, Misiones and Chaco.
According to Ladislao Kurucz in his book "The Hungarians in Argentina", 87% of the Hungarian immigrants who arrived in Argentina in the period between the wars came from Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Romania and were mostly peasants and workers. A second stream was the one that came because of the Second World War. These immigrants were mostly intellectuals, industrialists and businessmen who settled in the cities, especially in the Buenos Aires City. Around 1930 a strong Hungarian presence could be identified in the center, around Lavalle street. Within a few blocks, there were four Hungarian restaurants: Kék Duna ”(Blue Danube) in Maipú 433,“ Hungaria ”in Av. Córdoba 377,“ Vadászkurt ”(hunting horn) in Reconquista 458 and opposite the latter,“ Arany Bika ” (Golden Bull), whose owner must have come from Debrecen, where the famous inn with the same name is located.
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