Bács-Kiskun megye múltjából 19. (Kecskemét, 2004)

SUMMARY

study gives selections. The letters inform us of everyday life, problems, joy and thoughts of an educated, open-minded, sensitive actress. Historical events - the First World War, anti-war demonstrations, fighting for the universal suffrage - remain in the background, human experience is really important. Will and chance, wishes and conditions determined Adelaine Madarász's life. Reading these letters we can see that human things and problems have been the same in the last 70-100 years. These letters are exiting reading and interesting documents of the era. Female spirit, artistic sense, vitality, irony and humour of a well-balanced woman fill the lines, that is Adelaine Madarász's interesting and coloured personality. ERZSÉBET ERDÉLYI Surveys on the history of names of public places in Kecskemét The author has undertaken the name-database of the centre territory of Kecskemét town during the organization, changing and extending after the period of Turkish rule up to the year of 1945. Rich archive documents are available for researches about motivations of the first creating of official street names and we can have a look into the name creator's work. Comprising the street names of the three nearby cities called Nagykőrös, Kecskemét and Cegléd explores the tendencies of name construction taking longer than a century. The method of analysing is diachronic but synchronic approaching is unavoidable when the author classifies and compares. Significant changes can be noticed in each interval taking 25-30 years in the background of which stand name sociological , settlement-, administrative- and name-historical motives. After historical groups of names come semantically and forms researches. The specific face of the street-system in Kecskemét had been set up by the second half of the 19

th century. The centenary starts the modernizing processes that lead to the creating of names which were similar to precast panel construction. There were no motives when creating public domain-names but there were given prefabricated names. During the last decade some public domain names have been renewed so traditions succeeded in saving name creation. MIKLÓS ASBÓTH The structural settlement of Kalocsa town and the changes of its parts and public domain names The study contains four main parts. In the first part hydrographie and configuration of the terrain of Kalocsa could be found, then in the order of changes of structure of settlement from middle-ages to nowadays. Church constructing architecture was very essential in the 18

l century, and later in the bourgeois period, as well. The image of Kalocsa has always been determined by these constructions. The second part of the study contains the formation and changing of the public domain names of Kalocsa town. There are 505 streets in the town, which originate from per-