Review article
The alteration of names of settlements in Baranja in 1922 (a contribution to the research of Baranja oeconyms)
Aleksandar Horvat
Abstract
After the delimitation of state borders between the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and Hungary, the Yugoslav state obtained the southern part of Baranja region. Starting a de-Magyarization process, the new government made the decision to eliminate the consequences of the Hungarian presence in the former regions of Southern Hungary. As a part of this process, the alteration of old place names took place in 1922. In Baranja this assignment was given to the county school- inspector Milan Đ. Ćosić. With minor changes of his suggestions, old Hungarian names were officially replaced by names which were in accordance with the Slavic / “Serbo-Croatian” language. In general, places were given new names based on: the geographical situation of the places; the translations of old Hungarian and German oeconyms; oeconyms derived from the Hungarian and German languages but conforming to the Serbo-Croatian language; historical localities and names of cadastral plots and other smaller toponyms in the surroundings of the settlements. Even though some places were given new names without any very good reasons, the whole procedure was relatively honest, which can be confirmed by the fact that these names have been kept to the present day.
Keywords
Kingdom of Serbs; Croats and Slovenes; Baranja; Baranja oeconyms; Milan Đ. Ćosić; de-Magyarization
Hrčak ID:
130459
URI
Publication date:
1.10.2014.
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