(15 Mar 2017) Ethnic Hungarians in Romania's Transylvania region marked the anniversary of Hungary's 1848 revolution against the Habsburg empire on Wednesday.
In the town of Targu Secuiesc, hundreds watched as men and women, many in traditional dress, paraded to the central square.
Some men dressed up as Hussars (Hungarian light cavalry soldiers) to make their way to the Nyerges Pass in the nearyby mountains.
There, they visited a memorial to Gabor Aron, a local hero who led ethnic Hungarian forces during the revolution and who was killed in battle in 1849.
Most of Romania's ethnic Hungarians live in eastern Transylvania, a rural area with vast potato crops and mineral water springs.
The region was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918, when Hungary lost a huge swathe of its territory to Romania, Slovakia and other states.
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