Editing Forced assimilation (section)

==Religious==
{{further information|Forced conversion}}

Assimilation also includes the (often forced) [[religious conversion|conversion]] or [[secularization]]{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} of religious members of a minority group.

Throughout the Middle Ages and until the mid-19th century, most [[Jews]] in [[Europe]] were forced to live in small towns ([[shtetl]]s) and were restricted from entering universities or high-level professions.

In the [[Kingdom of Hungary]], most ethnic: [[Romanians]], [[Croatians]], [[Czechs]], and other non-Hungarians were forcibly converted to [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]], and those who resisted conversion were usually arrested.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lupaș |first=Ioan |author-link=Ioan Lupaș |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_0ppAAAAMAAJ |title=The Hungarian Policy of Magyarization |publisher=Romanian Cultural Foundation |year=1992}}</ref>