New interactive map lists nearly 1000 street names connected to Trianon

November 18, 2020 at 2:00 PM

A new interactive map highlights public spaces in Budapest that bare names that refer to territories, settlements, fortifications, ethnographic areas and peoples annexed by surrounding countries as a result of the dictated Treaty of Trianon that ended World War I for Hungary.

A total of 934 streets and squares have been listed on the new interactive map, that collects place names connected to see to territories, settlements, fortifications, ethnographic areas and peoples annexed by surrounding countries as a result of the dictated Treaty of Trianon – announced the Budapest Archives (BFL) to the MTI on Monday.

The website created by the Budapest Archives and the Átló team collected street and square names in Budapest, which bear the names of territories annexed in 1920, the size of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (Mosztár Street, Lemberg Street), Hungary's history (named after the border forts of the middle ages: Galambóc and Szabács Street), or First World War (Doberdó Street)

The map contains a total of 934 streets and squares around Budapest (Source: bparchiv.hu)

Name giving connected to Trianon happened in two larger waves. The first started in the 1920s and peaked in the 1930s. The second unfolded after the fall of communism. A mass of public spaces were named after Hungarian settlements newly outside the national border in the 1920s.

Several grouping of such streets emerged in certain quarters of Zugló developed in the period, as did other in Újbuda. In the 1930s, areas on the city border were given Trianon-related names, for example, in the present-day 18th District in Ganztelep–Szemeretelep and in the 20th District's Gubacsipuszta and Csepel.

Giving names related to Trianon began in the 1920s, a section of the 13th District on a contemporary map (Source:bparchiv.hu)

The press release adds that such names were even given in the darkest years of the Rákosi Regime, and throughout the Kádár Era as well. However, the city centre and castle district are almost completely exempt from these name-giving practices.

The interactive map accessible on adatvizualizacio.bparchiv.hu/hatarontuli allows visitors to look through names connected to the Treaty of Trianon with various filters. The site has also been optimized for mobile and tablet users.

Source: MTI

Cover photo Kolozsvár Street (after present-day Cluj-Napoca in Romania) in the 2nd District.

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