Cartography as a tool of nation-building in Hungary and means of legitimizing Hungarian ethnic borders and spaces
Cartography as a tool of nation-building in Hungary and means of legitimizing Hungarian ethnic borders and spaces

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the set of ideological means and systems of scholarly argumentation presented by the field of geographical science between the two world wars in an attempt to prove the unity of the Hungarian national space and demonstrate the impracticability of the spatial confines within which the state had to exist due to the ruling implemented after the Paris Peace Treaty. Specifically, I will elaborate on the geographical myths used to legitimize the so-called Hungarian state space, with special attention devoted to ethnic mapping as an ethno-political device and means of articulating discourses of power discourse.

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