HAON – You can read about the last moments of historical Hungary in Debrecen’s four libraries
Dr. Dávid Rózsa, director general of the National Széchényi Library, emphasized that the event provides an opportunity to break away from everyday life, reevaluate the past and think deeply about the future. He said that handing over the thousand-year-old heritage is the task of all of us, and libraries play a prominent role in this.
The individual pieces of the Millennium Hungary series are gap-filling works, extraordinary texts for students, researchers, educators and those who turn to our national past. Fundamentals that have not been accessible to the reader so far, or only with difficulty
– He told.
The speech and presentation of the museum director Dr. Csaba Pál Szabó was a clear proof of how much he cares about the knowledge left to us, the collection of authentic data and its wide dissemination as possible. The first part of the book package is the complete documentation of the Hungarian peace negotiations, which was compiled in 1920-21 by the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including the best politicians, geographers, and statisticians, despite the lack of paper and the Romanian occupation. While the Hungarian state is trying to write this material in order to give decision-makers a better judgment, half a million Hungarians are put in wagons, railway passengers are sent to Budapest with their stomachs cut open, and ladies are caned in Cluj. And the decision-makers at Versailles leave the Hungarian documents unanswered. The second document in the volume series is the most detailed, renovated map ever made of the Carpathian basin, which shows the ethnic relations existing at the time of the 1910 census up to a settlement of 50 people. This map records the last moment of historical Hungary, the state in 1918, when the territory of our country was larger than that of Great Britain and its population was three times that of Romania. The third part of the package is an edition of ten, which presents the thousand-year-old Hungary from ten different perspectives, by authors such as our Nobel Prize-nominated geographer, Ferenc Cholnoky, or the Nobel Prize-nominated writer, Ferenc Herczeg.
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