Ihász István - Pintér János szerk.: Történeti Muzeológiai Szemle: A Magyar Múzeumi Történész Társulat Évkönyve 5. (Budapest, 2005)

II. Módszertan - Műhely - Közlemények - Balpataki Katalin: A helynévrendezési törvény kialakulása és végrehajtása

ORLICSEK József 1964. A Központi Statisztikai Hivatal helységnévtár-szerkesztő tevékenysége. Statisztikai Szemle 5.sz. DR. THIRRING Lajos 1947. Község- és helyneveink megállapítása s megváltoztatása. Magyar Statisztikai Szemle 5-6. Sz. The Formation and Implementation of the Place-Name Act (1894-1953) Katalin Balpataki In the course of compiling the first gazetteer (first published 1873) for the National Statistics Office (formed in 1867), the editors' attention was drawn to the fact that in identifying a number of settlements they were giving the same names. Altogether 826 settlements existed in historic Hungary which used the same name to identify themselves, in addition to which two-thousand had no name at all. The chaotic place-names increasingly proved an obstacle to administration, the railways, post-office, the military and other such areas. In 1895, on the basis of a recommendation submitted in 1894 by Dr. Antal Vízneker, a senior civil servant in the NSO, a Register Committee was put together whose task was the organisation of place-names throughout the country. However, the Committee was only empowered to recommend, and there was no order or law that might have authorised the Register Committee to bring about a legal decision, and so its work was practically in vain, for this reason, the Committee embarked upon the drawing up of a bill, which was passed by Parliament in the December of 1897. Statute 1898. IV calls for the creation of a National Settlements Register Committee. The committee's members included representatives from all the ministries affected by the disorganised place-name situation, as well as historians, archivists and others whose professional knowledge and source materials often strengthened or disputed such settlement names as arose. The monumental task was thoroughly carried out with much thought and organisation. Up until the First World War the place-names of 59 counties had been inspected and ratified. Due to the Treaty of Versailles the remaining four counties now belonged to other countries. Up until its dissolution in 1954 the NSRC was primarily invoked in establishing names for new settlements. Surviving documentation serves as excellent source material for the intellectual and infrastructural mapping of Hungary at the turn of the century.