Simon Attila: Telepesek és telepes falvak Dél-Szlovákiában a két világháború között - Nostra Tempora 15. (Somorja, 2009)
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286 Resume 3300 families who settled in South Slovakia, who altogether gained more than 45 thousand hectares of arable land. The territorial devision of the colonization was not equal. The territories of upper part of Csallóköz (Žitný ostrov), Komárno and the areas of Nógrád and Gemer were the most densely colonized, while in Hont only some smaller private colonies were founded, around Rožňava there was no colnization at all. Investigating the motives of colonization the author disproves the previously inveterated beliefs in the Slovak literature, according to what the primary cause of colonization is the lack of lands in the Northern regions of Slovakia, so it could have had social and economic motives. Both the South Slovakian colonization of the Moravian settlers and the fact of high redundancy of ground-men and day-laboured people living in South Slovakia during the period of land reform contradict this. In the author’s opinion behind the planning and realization of the colonization there are such intentions which put the interests of the nation-state to primary positions to change the ethnic aspects of South Slovakia, which right after the change of the state was homogenously dwelt by Hungarians. Among other intentions there was the gradual Slovakization of the territory, the strengthening of the frontiers by settling there people loyal to the state and the nationalization of arable lands, which served the obtainment of political power. To find out the merits and values of the fulfilment of these objectives needs further research. The last great chapter of the thesis gives an account of the Czech and Slovak colonists’ fate after the ethnic principled border revision in consequence of the Vienna Award. In November, 1938 the greater part of colonist villages got to Hungary. The new power did not conceal their intention to eliminate the colonization’s consequences originating from the aggressive intervention to the territory's ethnic structure. Whereupon some of the colonists left voluntarily, other colonists due to the forceful influence of Hungarian authorities abandoned colonies and left to Slovakia, but the majority in spite of all these stayed. The tribulations of the colonists leaving their places did not end, because at places selected for them as temporary abodes they were received with antipathy. Czech colonists were directly banished from the country by the autonomous Slovak régime. The monograph is enriched by pictures maps, summary of colonial villages, short biographies of significant people appearing in the book and an index of personal names and toponyms.
