Wilsonianism, the principle of the self-determination of nations, which appeared in the last years of the First World War, quickly spread among the politicians, intellectuals and nationalities of the later victorious great powers, the small...
As Minister for National Minorities of the Károlyi Government, Oszkár Jászi saw clearly that the eastern Slovak movement in north-eastern Hungary, like the republican vision in Szepes (Slovak: Spiš), was a powerless movement from the very b...
Sáros County, within its limits, also tried to get involved in local history research and historical self-representation. It did this by drawing up a historical monograph on Sáros at the county´s own expense. In addition, attempts were made...
The self-determination of the Germans in the Szepes (today Spiš) region in autumn 1918 was partly built upon the identity of local Germans and Hungarians (assimilated Germans and Jews). Independence had not been formulated as a possible sol...
The possibilities of interpretation of the eastern Slovak (Slovjak) population can be traced out in the triangle of dialect, denomination, and regional identity. The nationalities (Slovaks, Ruthenians, Germans and Hungarians) living in Šari...