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Changes in administration, spatial structure, and demography in the Partium region since the Treaty of Trianon

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Following the Trianon decision, the name Partium re-emerged, this time as the name of a major region.When the border was defined, the infrastructure track overrode the ethnic, catchment, historic, administrative, and terrain dividing lines in the region.The previously balanced ethnic structure of the region's population has changed to a Romanian majority.In terms of spatial structure, the former market line has become a periphery, where only a few gateway cities managed to remain economically successful due to logistical reasons.The new frontier suddenly eliminated the competitive situations of some city-pairs (for example Debrecen-Oradea, Szeged-Arad), creating new ones instead (Timişoara-Arad, Oradea-Cluj, Satu Mare-Baia Mare).The large cities that found themselves on the Romanian side of the border could not compete for major developments because their positions were strategically difficult to defend.Therefore, a peripherization of the border region took place.The ethnic change in the cities took place before the fall of Communism, while the population change in the suburban areas is taking place today. The study is an edited version of a presentation held on 16 October 2019 at the conference "Trianon 100 -Consequences of the Treaty in the context of statistical analyses".

Source: Regional Statistics

DOI: 10.15196/rs100104

Authors: Ferenc Szilágyi, Tibor Elekes

Institutions: Partium Christian University, University of Miskolc

Language: English

Topic: Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: European Commission, European Social Fund