A History of Central Eastern Europe
Four towns in Zemplen Megye in Hungary are studied: Hosszu-Laz, Felso-Regmec, Nagy-Trna (now in Slovakia), and Satoralijaujhely; and two villages in the Spis region of Slovakia: Stara Ves and Majere with Lysa nad Dunajcom provide the backdrop for an overview of this part of Hungary and Upper Hungary from the 18th to 20th centuries.
Four towns in Zemplen Megye in Hungary are studied: Hosszu-Laz, Felso-Regmec, Nagy-Trna (now in Slovakia), and Satoralijaujhely; and two villages in the Spis region of Slovakia: Stara Ves and Majere with Lysa nad Dunajcom provide the backdrop for an overview of this part of Hungary and Upper Hungary from the 18th to 20th centuries.
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When the House of Austria gained the Crown of Hungary in 1699, a massive program of
Germanization occurred. This program had both practical and political purposes. The House of
Austria was Germanic and is better known to us as the House of HABSBURG. Consolidation of
power by the ruling monarchy of any region often entailed the importation of advisors and
courtiers that were both known to the monarch and trusted to perform the required functions of
state. Logic dictates that those already familiar to the monarch and the offices of state would be
from that monarch’s center of power, in this case Vienna. The Czech tribe homeland of Bohemia
had for some centuries identified more with their westerly neighbors: the Germans, Prussians and
Bavarians rather than their kinsman: Poles to the north, Moravians and Slovaks the east, and
Slovenes to the south.
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