Bécs kapujában. Területi fejlettségi különbségek a Kisalföld déli részén a 20. század elején
At the gates of Vienna. Territorial diff erences in the development of the Southern part of the Kisalföld region in thebeginning of the 20th century

Summary/Abstract: In the present historico-geographical paper I have attempted to present theinternal segmentation and developmental fault-lines of the early-20th centuryWestern Trans-Danubian region using quantitative methods. On of the mostimportant results of my researches is the discovery of a characteristic “North-Western/South-Eastern slope” in the diff erences among the development levelof the areas of the Western Trans-Danubian region. Th is refl ects the develop mental situation of the entire country. I was also able to ascertain that, ratherthan diff erences of religion, ethnicity or settlement structure, developmental differencesare primarily defi ned by the distance from Vienna. The developmentalmap displays marked zonality: we only fi nd contiguous areas of relative underdevelopmenton the Southern and Eastern peripheries, only disrupted by thedeveloped ”islands” around the towns. The correlation between the developmentalzones and Vienna also shows that at the beginning of the 20th century thecenter of this region was much rather Vienna than the capital of the country,Budapest.

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