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MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont, 2019
Budapest 2019 Készült az NKFI 124 291 sz. A poszt-szovjet után (?): A változó kelet-európai puffe... more Budapest 2019 Készült az NKFI 124 291 sz. A poszt-szovjet után (?): A változó kelet-európai pufferzóna társadalmi folyamatainak földrajzi vizsgálata c. projekt keretében, a Lengyel-Magyar Akadémiai Mobilitási Projekt támogatásával, a Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont és az ELTE Etnikai-és Vallásföldrajzi Műhelyének együttműködésével.
Beyond highlighting the role and functions of ethnic maps of the Balkan Peninsula in the 19thcent... more Beyond highlighting the role and functions of ethnic maps of the Balkan Peninsula in the 19thcentury in the context of the emerging, nationalist ideology (1); this article tries to draw attention to some misinterpretations or abuses made intentionally by cartographers, (2) by comparing the original datasets with the officially published and reinterpreted tables found in the HHStA (2a), and by comparing the western and eastern and Balkan cartographic practices and visualization methods (2b). All these could lead to different interpretations (not to mention the different interpretations of the terms used to denote the same nation), which made ethnic maps adequate instruments to advocate the nationalidea, turningthem from a scientific method (thematic mapping) to a political tool of creating the nation (instead of depicting it). Our case studies examine (a) whether the firstgeneration ethnic patch maps depicted the situation in the Balkans better, or the reinterpreted modern piechart maps are more appropriate to illustrate ethnic diversity; (b) whether Ottoman data are completely unreliable or they could serve as a basis of ethnic mapping; (c) whether the investigated Ottoman data from the 1830s and the 1870s were available to western cartographersat all or not and how data were distorted; and(d) whether there were any maps based on Ottoman data that reached the level of decisionmakers and how this related to other, western map constructions. We also compare the features of nationalist and imperial ethnic cartography, the languagecentric and religiocentric approach and the differences between these approaches, and finally we also try to offer a rather limited method of how to mutually control the reliability of sources produced by competing parties (on the example of Ottoman and Exarchist data).
Geographia Polonica, 2010
The Balkan region, which is extremely heterogeneous from ethnical, religious and cultural aspects... more The Balkan region, which is extremely heterogeneous from ethnical, religious and cultural aspects, is characterized by serious differences of economic development as well. The Muslim inhabitants in the Balkan region are living in 10 countries, in which their spatial concentration shows significant differences. The growth of the number of Muslims and the transgression of their settlement area was going on from the 15th until the 19th century. The analysis of the ethnical and economic development pattern of the Balkan region can raise the question, whether there is a connection between the spatial allocation of the Muslims and the spatial pattern of economic development.
Die wissentschaftliche Basis dieses Aufsatzes bildet der zweite Teil einer größeren Forschungsarb... more Die wissentschaftliche Basis dieses Aufsatzes bildet der zweite Teil einer größeren Forschungsarbeit, die die Abgrenzung der Sprachinseln der Ungarndeutschen erzielt. Sowohl der Aufbau als auch die angewandten Methoden folgen den bereits erschienenen Publikationen des Autors (BOTTLIK 2001). Das Ziel dieser umfassenden Forschung ist die Untersuchung der Entwicklung von deutschen Siedlungsgebieten, ihre Umstrukturierung und deren räumliche Konsequenzen, dargestellt durch kartographische und statistische Methoden. Die Zielgruppe der Untersuchung bildet die deutsche Minderheit auf dem heutigen Gebiet von Ungarn. Die grundlegende Hypothese der Forschung ist das, dass der Anteilverlust bei den in relativ kompakten Block lebenden Minderheitsgruppen am geringsten ist. Außerdem wirkt der Assimilationsdruck auch dort weniger, wo die in der Diaspora lebende Minderheit in ihrem Ort eine absolute, oder relative Mehrheit bildet. Die oben erwähnte Abgrenzung der Blöcke wurde mit Hilfe des Nachbars...
An independent Montenegro and the geographic background of Montenegrin identity Montenegro (Crna ... more An independent Montenegro and the geographic background of Montenegrin identity Montenegro (Crna Gora), a country with a territory of barely 14 thousand km² has long supported the centralised power in Belgrade. Although Montenegrins were highly overrepresented in the institutions of the Yugoslav and later Serbo-Montenegrin Federation (military forces, police and administration) with respect to their share within the whole population, due to the problems emerging in the middle of the 1990s the issue of independence soon entered the political agenda. This marked the beginning of a move away from the Federation and had led to a desire to proclaim sovereignty and culminated in the referendum held in May 2006 which decided in favour of independence. In the fi rst half of the study a summary is presented about the historical background of the ethnic spatial structure of Montenegro and its present state based on the data of the latest offi cial census (2003) focusing mainly on modifi catio...
An independent Montenegro and the geographic background of Montenegrin identity Montenegro (Crna ... more An independent Montenegro and the geographic background of Montenegrin identity Montenegro (Crna Gora), a country with a territory of barely 14 thousand km2 has long supported the centralised power in Belgrade. Although Montenegrins were highly overrepresented in the institutions of the Yugoslav and later Serbo-Montenegrin Federation (military forces, police and administration) with respect to their share within the whole population, due to the problems emerging in the middle of the 1990s the issue of independence soon entered the political agenda. This marked the beginning of a move away from the Federation and had led to a desire to proclaim sovereignty and culminated in the referendum held in May 2006 which decided in favour of independence. In the fi rst half of the study a summary is presented about the historical background of the ethnic spatial structure of Montenegro and its present state based on the data of the latest offi cial census (2003) focusing mainly on modifi catio...
BEVEZETÉS Napjainkban az alapkutatásokban sajnálatosan kis szerephez jutnak a természet-és társad... more BEVEZETÉS Napjainkban az alapkutatásokban sajnálatosan kis szerephez jutnak a természet-és társadalomföldrajz egységét megjelenítő kutatások. A fenti megállapítás alól kivételként említhetők a környezetvédelemhez kapcsolódó vizsgálatok, amelyek az embernek a környezetére gyakorolt – általában negatív – hatásait elemzik. A karsztvidékeket, amelyek különösen érzékeny rendszernek számítanak, számos kutatásban vizsgálták már ökológiai-környezeti megközelítésben (pl. Keveiné Bárány 2004, 2005; Tanács, Bárány-Kevei 2005). Jelen kutatásban azonban éppen a másik irányból közelítjük meg a természet és társadalom kapcsolatát a karsztvidékek példáján. A XIX. században kialakuló környezeti (földrajzi) determinizmus álláspontja az, hogy a természeti feltételek döntő mértékben meghatározzák egy társadalom fejlettségét. Ennek antitézise a földrajzi nihilizmus, amely következetesen tagadja, hogy a környezet meghatározná a társadalmi fejlettséget (pl. Probáld 1994). A földrajzi posszibilizmus e kett...
Human-environment relationships have long been in the focus of geographic studies. in this paper,... more Human-environment relationships have long been in the focus of geographic studies. in this paper, a giS-aided statistical analysis is carried out to explore the intensity of these relation-ships for selected environmental and social factors with special emphasis on karst landscapes. The study area is the Gömör–Torna (Gemer-Turňa) Karst and its broad surroundings including the southern rudohorie mts (érchegység), cserehát and Putnok Hills. in the settlement scale, physical and social factors are usually loosely correlated, but the relationships are statistically significant (e.g. settlement elongation vs slope; settlement population vs distance from rivers; etc.). on the other hand, using mean values of larger units defined by environmental parameters, the correlations are much tighter. Population density, settlement density and road density are all highly influenced by elevation, relative height and slope. land cover types (especially forests and arable lands) are partly natural, pa...
Geographia Polonica, 2010
The Balkan region, which is extremely heterogeneous from ethnical, religious and cultural aspects... more The Balkan region, which is extremely heterogeneous from ethnical, religious and cultural aspects, is characterized by serious differences of economic development as well. The Muslim inhabitants in the Balkan region are living in 10 countries, in which their spatial concentration shows significant differences. The growth of the number of Muslims and the transgression of their settlement area was going on from the 15th until the 19th century. The analysis of the ethnical and economic development pattern of the Balkan region can raise the question, whether there is a connection between the spatial allocation of the Muslims and the spatial pattern of economic development.
MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont, 2019
Budapest 2019 Készült az NKFI 124 291 sz. A poszt-szovjet után (?): A változó kelet-európai puffe... more Budapest 2019 Készült az NKFI 124 291 sz. A poszt-szovjet után (?): A változó kelet-európai pufferzóna társadalmi folyamatainak földrajzi vizsgálata c. projekt keretében, a Lengyel-Magyar Akadémiai Mobilitási Projekt támogatásával, a Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont és az ELTE Etnikai-és Vallásföldrajzi Műhelyének együttműködésével.
Beyond highlighting the role and functions of ethnic maps of the Balkan Peninsula in the 19thcent... more Beyond highlighting the role and functions of ethnic maps of the Balkan Peninsula in the 19thcentury in the context of the emerging, nationalist ideology (1); this article tries to draw attention to some misinterpretations or abuses made intentionally by cartographers, (2) by comparing the original datasets with the officially published and reinterpreted tables found in the HHStA (2a), and by comparing the western and eastern and Balkan cartographic practices and visualization methods (2b). All these could lead to different interpretations (not to mention the different interpretations of the terms used to denote the same nation), which made ethnic maps adequate instruments to advocate the nationalidea, turningthem from a scientific method (thematic mapping) to a political tool of creating the nation (instead of depicting it). Our case studies examine (a) whether the firstgeneration ethnic patch maps depicted the situation in the Balkans better, or the reinterpreted modern piechart maps are more appropriate to illustrate ethnic diversity; (b) whether Ottoman data are completely unreliable or they could serve as a basis of ethnic mapping; (c) whether the investigated Ottoman data from the 1830s and the 1870s were available to western cartographersat all or not and how data were distorted; and(d) whether there were any maps based on Ottoman data that reached the level of decisionmakers and how this related to other, western map constructions. We also compare the features of nationalist and imperial ethnic cartography, the languagecentric and religiocentric approach and the differences between these approaches, and finally we also try to offer a rather limited method of how to mutually control the reliability of sources produced by competing parties (on the example of Ottoman and Exarchist data).
Geographia Polonica, 2010
The Balkan region, which is extremely heterogeneous from ethnical, religious and cultural aspects... more The Balkan region, which is extremely heterogeneous from ethnical, religious and cultural aspects, is characterized by serious differences of economic development as well. The Muslim inhabitants in the Balkan region are living in 10 countries, in which their spatial concentration shows significant differences. The growth of the number of Muslims and the transgression of their settlement area was going on from the 15th until the 19th century. The analysis of the ethnical and economic development pattern of the Balkan region can raise the question, whether there is a connection between the spatial allocation of the Muslims and the spatial pattern of economic development.
Die wissentschaftliche Basis dieses Aufsatzes bildet der zweite Teil einer größeren Forschungsarb... more Die wissentschaftliche Basis dieses Aufsatzes bildet der zweite Teil einer größeren Forschungsarbeit, die die Abgrenzung der Sprachinseln der Ungarndeutschen erzielt. Sowohl der Aufbau als auch die angewandten Methoden folgen den bereits erschienenen Publikationen des Autors (BOTTLIK 2001). Das Ziel dieser umfassenden Forschung ist die Untersuchung der Entwicklung von deutschen Siedlungsgebieten, ihre Umstrukturierung und deren räumliche Konsequenzen, dargestellt durch kartographische und statistische Methoden. Die Zielgruppe der Untersuchung bildet die deutsche Minderheit auf dem heutigen Gebiet von Ungarn. Die grundlegende Hypothese der Forschung ist das, dass der Anteilverlust bei den in relativ kompakten Block lebenden Minderheitsgruppen am geringsten ist. Außerdem wirkt der Assimilationsdruck auch dort weniger, wo die in der Diaspora lebende Minderheit in ihrem Ort eine absolute, oder relative Mehrheit bildet. Die oben erwähnte Abgrenzung der Blöcke wurde mit Hilfe des Nachbars...
An independent Montenegro and the geographic background of Montenegrin identity Montenegro (Crna ... more An independent Montenegro and the geographic background of Montenegrin identity Montenegro (Crna Gora), a country with a territory of barely 14 thousand km² has long supported the centralised power in Belgrade. Although Montenegrins were highly overrepresented in the institutions of the Yugoslav and later Serbo-Montenegrin Federation (military forces, police and administration) with respect to their share within the whole population, due to the problems emerging in the middle of the 1990s the issue of independence soon entered the political agenda. This marked the beginning of a move away from the Federation and had led to a desire to proclaim sovereignty and culminated in the referendum held in May 2006 which decided in favour of independence. In the fi rst half of the study a summary is presented about the historical background of the ethnic spatial structure of Montenegro and its present state based on the data of the latest offi cial census (2003) focusing mainly on modifi catio...
An independent Montenegro and the geographic background of Montenegrin identity Montenegro (Crna ... more An independent Montenegro and the geographic background of Montenegrin identity Montenegro (Crna Gora), a country with a territory of barely 14 thousand km2 has long supported the centralised power in Belgrade. Although Montenegrins were highly overrepresented in the institutions of the Yugoslav and later Serbo-Montenegrin Federation (military forces, police and administration) with respect to their share within the whole population, due to the problems emerging in the middle of the 1990s the issue of independence soon entered the political agenda. This marked the beginning of a move away from the Federation and had led to a desire to proclaim sovereignty and culminated in the referendum held in May 2006 which decided in favour of independence. In the fi rst half of the study a summary is presented about the historical background of the ethnic spatial structure of Montenegro and its present state based on the data of the latest offi cial census (2003) focusing mainly on modifi catio...
BEVEZETÉS Napjainkban az alapkutatásokban sajnálatosan kis szerephez jutnak a természet-és társad... more BEVEZETÉS Napjainkban az alapkutatásokban sajnálatosan kis szerephez jutnak a természet-és társadalomföldrajz egységét megjelenítő kutatások. A fenti megállapítás alól kivételként említhetők a környezetvédelemhez kapcsolódó vizsgálatok, amelyek az embernek a környezetére gyakorolt – általában negatív – hatásait elemzik. A karsztvidékeket, amelyek különösen érzékeny rendszernek számítanak, számos kutatásban vizsgálták már ökológiai-környezeti megközelítésben (pl. Keveiné Bárány 2004, 2005; Tanács, Bárány-Kevei 2005). Jelen kutatásban azonban éppen a másik irányból közelítjük meg a természet és társadalom kapcsolatát a karsztvidékek példáján. A XIX. században kialakuló környezeti (földrajzi) determinizmus álláspontja az, hogy a természeti feltételek döntő mértékben meghatározzák egy társadalom fejlettségét. Ennek antitézise a földrajzi nihilizmus, amely következetesen tagadja, hogy a környezet meghatározná a társadalmi fejlettséget (pl. Probáld 1994). A földrajzi posszibilizmus e kett...
Human-environment relationships have long been in the focus of geographic studies. in this paper,... more Human-environment relationships have long been in the focus of geographic studies. in this paper, a giS-aided statistical analysis is carried out to explore the intensity of these relation-ships for selected environmental and social factors with special emphasis on karst landscapes. The study area is the Gömör–Torna (Gemer-Turňa) Karst and its broad surroundings including the southern rudohorie mts (érchegység), cserehát and Putnok Hills. in the settlement scale, physical and social factors are usually loosely correlated, but the relationships are statistically significant (e.g. settlement elongation vs slope; settlement population vs distance from rivers; etc.). on the other hand, using mean values of larger units defined by environmental parameters, the correlations are much tighter. Population density, settlement density and road density are all highly influenced by elevation, relative height and slope. land cover types (especially forests and arable lands) are partly natural, pa...
Geographia Polonica, 2010
The Balkan region, which is extremely heterogeneous from ethnical, religious and cultural aspects... more The Balkan region, which is extremely heterogeneous from ethnical, religious and cultural aspects, is characterized by serious differences of economic development as well. The Muslim inhabitants in the Balkan region are living in 10 countries, in which their spatial concentration shows significant differences. The growth of the number of Muslims and the transgression of their settlement area was going on from the 15th until the 19th century. The analysis of the ethnical and economic development pattern of the Balkan region can raise the question, whether there is a connection between the spatial allocation of the Muslims and the spatial pattern of economic development.