page_title: Outline of Hungary
section_title: Law and order in Hungary
hierarchical_section_title: Outline of Hungary / Government and politics of Hungary / Law and order in Hungary
caption_attribution_description: Protesters_in_Budapest,_Hungary, 20_Sep_2006
context_page_description: The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Hungary:
  Hungary – landlocked sovereign country located in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordering Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of OECD, NATO, EU and a Schengen state. The official language is Hungarian, which forms part of the Uralic family. It is one of the four official languages of the European Union that is not of Indo-European origin.
  Following a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid in the late Ninth Century by the Magyar chieftain Árpád, whose great grandson István ascended to the throne with a crown sent from Rome in 1000. The Kingdom of Hungary existed with minor interruptions for more than 900 years, and at various points was regarded as one of the cultural centers of the Western world. It was succeeded by a Communist era during which Hungary gained widespread international attention regarding the Revolution of 1956 and the seminal move of opening its border with Austria in 1989, thus accelerating the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.
context_section_description: Law of Hungary
  Capital punishment in Hungary
  Constitution of Hungary
  Crime in Hungary
  Prostitution in Hungary
  Human rights in Hungary
  Women's rights in Hungary
  LGBT rights in Hungary
  Recognition of same-sex unions in Hungary
  Freedom of religion in Hungary
  Law enforcement in Hungary
  2006 protests in Hungary
caption: 2006 protests in Hungary.
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