The paper examines entanglements between aspects of linguistic Magyarization in four towns of the Banat under Dualist Hungary, two of which are today in Romania and two in Serbia. After outlining ...local power relations and the shifting relations to central and county authorities, the author assesses the spread of Hungarian language skills in the urban population and charts out the evolution of language policies. This reveals that local decision-makers had to walk a fine line between the expectations of a monolingual norm and their home-grown elites' limited competence in the state language. While the four towns continued to project a multilingual image to their citizenries and their elected bodies continued to rely on the local languages, government agencies had by the end of the era enforced the use of Hungarian in everyday bureaucratic routines. Special focus is placed on German-speaking Catholic elites, who often resonated with Hungarian state nationalism, but typically without full cognizance of its linguistic consequences.
From the 1860s onward, Habsburg Hungary attempted a massive project of cultural assimilation to impose a unified national identity on its diverse populations. In one of the more quixotic episodes in ...this "Magyarization, " large monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin—supposedly, the moment when the Hungarian nation was born. This exactingly researched study recounts the troubled history of this plan, which—far from cultivating national pride—provoked resistance and even hostility among provincial Hungarians. Author Bálint Varga thus reframes the narrative of nineteenth-century nationalism, demonstrating the complex relationship between local and national memories.
Cilj ovoga rada je na temelju postojeće literature i novina prikazati i objasniti politički put književnika, pjesnika i političara Mirka Bogovića (1816.-1893.), posebice njegov put od „vatrenog“ ...pristaše ilirskog pokreta do čvrstog unionista poslije 1860. godine. Bogović tada postaje zagovornik dualizma i što jačeg vezivanja Hrvatske unutar Ugarskog kraljevstva, čak do potiranja njenih skromnih državnopravnih i financijskih okvira u toj zajednici nejednakih. Na kraju rada nalazi se devet pisama koja se tiču Bogovićevog književnog i političkog rada iz preporodnog i neoapsolutističkog razdoblja. Ona su ovdje priložena jer djelomično pokazuju Bogovićev materijalni položaj te njegov temperament i karakter, što korespondira s temom ovog rada.
Baranja je Trijanonskim mirovnim ugovorom 1920. podijeljena između Mađarske i Kraljevine SHS. Manji, južni dio područja pripao je jugoslavenskoj državi. U skladu s državnom politikom demađarizacije u ...krajevima bivše južne Ugarske, 1922. izvršena je promjena imena mjesta u Banatu, Bačkoj i Baranji. Promjena imena naselja u Baranji uglavnom se temeljila na prijedlogu županijskog školskog nadzornika Milana Đ. Ćosića iz prosinca 1920. Mađarski nazivi su zamijenjeni slavenskim imenima mjesta, koja su ostala u upotrebi do danas.
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