The people of the village of Miliya in Northern Israel, also called the Lajos village, are descendants of the Hungarian contingent of the Crusades. King Andrew II took part in the storming of Acre. These Hungarians speak Arabic and are Christians. We Jews (Judeans) returning to our land two thousand years after having been expelled by the Romans, find it occupied by a variety of foreign peoples, and the Hungarians are among the less exotic of them. One could also find hidden yet still recognizable descendants of the original Jewish population, but they have suppressed their identity, dissolving in the emerging Palestinian nation.
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