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| Total population | |
| Unknown (by birth) + 200,000 (by ancestry) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Mainly inBuenos Aires | |
| Languages | |
| Spanish · Hungarian | |
| Religion | |
| Majority:Catholicism · Protestantism Minority:Irreligion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Hungarians · Hungarian Brazilians · Hungarian Americans · Hungarian Canadians |
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The presence ofHungarian Argentines (Hungarian:Argentínai magyarok) dates back to the 18th century, when a number of HungarianJesuit priests came to North Argentina and Paraguay and settled inJesuit Reductions. After the fall of theHungarian Revolution of 1848 a number of Hungarian officers fled to Argentina. Among them wereJános Czetz, founder of theColegio Militar de la Nación (the Argentine National Military Academy) andAlexander Asboth, who served asUnited States Ambassador to Argentina. Another well-known Hungarian emigrant to Argentina isLászló Bíró, who perfected and patented his invention, theballpoint pen – also known asbiro – after his emigration to Argentina.
Today, there are between 150,000 and 200,000 people of Hungarian descent living in Argentina, mostly inBuenos Aires. Most of them arrived in the three main emigration waves: during and afterWorld War I, during and afterWorld War II, and after theHungarian Revolution of 1956 was crushed by the Soviet Union. They maintain 19 associations and four registered religious communities throughout the country, the Hungarian community carries musical instruments such asViolin, which have long been used in Argentina.