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Scouting in Hungary is maintained through Magyar Cserkészet Tanácsa, the Council of Hungarian Scouting. There are two associations in this national federation, '''Magyar Cserkészszövetség''', the Hungarian Scout Association, and '''Magyar Cserkészcsapatok Szövetsége'''. Also serving Hungarian Scouts is '''[[Magyar Cserkészlány Szövetség]]''', the Association of Hungarian Girl Guides.

Hungarian Scouting was founded in [[1909]] under [[Austria-Hungary]], and the first Scout group in the dual monarchy, ''MCA-1912 HAS'', was founded in [[Budapest]] in [[1910]]. Scouting started in the separate nation of Hungary in [[1919]], at the end of [[World War I]], when [[Austria]] and Hungary were divided. In [[1920]], the magazine ''Magyar Cserkész'' ("Hungarian Scout") was first published.

Hungary hosted the [[4th World Scout Jamboree|fourth World Jamboree]] in [[1933]] at the royal forest of [[Gödöllő]], outside [[Budapest]], in which 26,000 Scouts from 54 nations camped together. The camp chief was [[Pál Teleki|Teleki Pál]], the member of the International Committee who later became [[Prime Minister of Hungary]]. This was the first time there was a Jamboree subcamp for Scouts taking part in aviation. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the fourth World Jamboree, the Hungarian Scout Association hosted a fourth World Jamboree Memorial Camp at [[Bélapátfalva]], Hungary in [[1993]].  

Scouting was well organized and popular in Hungary until it was banned in 1948. Scouting was officially abolished by the [[Communist]] regime in 1948, but remained nascent underground in a situation similar to that of neighboring [[Czechoslovakia]]. Even in those decades when Scouting was banned, former Scouts kept the spirit of Scouting and ran children's programs in a more or less Scout way, often risking imprisonment. Meanwhile, émigré Hungarians in the west were able to keep the organization going. For them, Scouting gave an excellent opportunity to teach their children about their homeland.

[[Image:--HungaryGodollo1933.jpg|thumb|140px|Participant badge of the 1933 World Scout Jamboree]]

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*Cub Scouts-ages 6-11 years

The [[Scout Motto]] is ''Légy Résen'', translating as ''Be Prepared'' in [[Magyar]]. The [[Girl Guide]] Motto is ''Jó Munkát''. The Magyar noun for a single Scout is ''Cserkész''.

[[Image:Magyar Cserkészszövetség national badge.png|thumb|National badge of Magyar Cserkészszövetség]]

Other Hungarian Scout organizations include  

*[[Image:Guides and Scouts of Europe membership badge.png|20px]] and the Magyarorszagi Europai Cserkészek (MEC), founded in 1990 and belonging to the [[Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe]] as a Christian-based Scout alternative with 200 members.

A number of associations offers Scouting to people of Hungarian descent living abroad from Hungary. They form two groups:

* Külföldi Magyar Cserkészszövetség - Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris ([[Scouts-in-Exile]])

The two international recognised Hungarian associations, the Scouts in Exteris and the minority associations are members of the ''International Forum of Hungarian Scouting''.  

In addition to Scouting inside Hungary, the Magyar Cserkészszövetség maintains strong ties to Scouting organizations for ethnic Hungarian youth in the [[Vojvodina]] region of [[Serbia]], [[Slovakia]], [[Ukraine]], and [[Romania]], as well as to Külföldi Magyar Cserkészszövetség, the Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris (alternately translated Hungarian Scout Association Abroad), an organization which kept Scouting alive outside Hungary and Eastern Europe through the years of the [[Cold War]].

Külföldi Magyar Cserkészszövetség is tied closely with the Hungarian Scouts Association in Hungary, and with the independent Hungarian Scout Associations organized in the Hungarian minority areas in neighboring Slovakia, Subcarpathian Ukraine, Romania, and Serbia-Montenegro. Each of these countries has significant Hungarian minorities, and Scouting makes it possible for them to learn more about their own heritage, language and culture. Since the advent of democracy, Külföldi Magyar Cserkészszövetség has trained almost 500 Scoutmasters and assistant Scoutmasters for these brother associations. The World Organization of the Scout Movement maintains ties and provides support to the reemerging Scouting movements in the countries of their birth.

All of the following associations have strong ties to Magyar Cserkészszövetség. Some of them are direct members of the Hungarian association.

* [[Croatia]]: ''Horvátországi Magyar Cserkészszövetség'' (HZMCSSZ)

* [[Ukraine]]: ''Kárpátaljai Magyar Cserkészszövetség'' (KáMCSSZ)

*[[László Almásy]] pilot, researcher of the [[Sahara Desert]], title character of [[The English Patient]]

*[[Ferenc Csík]] swimmer, gold medal winner of [[1936 Summer Olympics]]

*[[Pál Teleki]] scientist, prime minister of [[Hungary]] ([[1920]]-[[1921]]) and ([[1939]]-[[1941]])

In addition, there are USA Girl Scouts Overseas in Budapest, serviced by way of USAGSO headquarters in [[New York]]; as well as Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts linked to the Horizon District of the [[Transatlantic Council]] of the [[Boy Scouts of America]], which supports units in west-and-central Europe, the Near East and North Africa.

*[[Béla H. Bánáthy]]

*[[White Stag (program)]] - Junior Leader Training (JLT)

*[http://www.cserkesz.hu/ Magyar Cserkészszövetség webpage]

*[http://home.iae.nl/users/nickl/forum.html International Forum of Hungarian Scouting]

*[http://www.kmcssz.org/indexe.html Külföldi Magyar Cserkészszövetség - Hungarian Scouts in Exile]

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