Kovács Attila: Földreform és kolonizáció a Lendva-vidéken a két világháború között (Lendva, 2004)
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happened later. There, Hungarians could rent agrarian land according to the decree on the four-year lease of large estates until the end of September 1924. As to which persons belong to the Hungarian and other non-Slavic nation in the Lendva region, the authorities implementing the land reform decided according to the data concerning mother tongue in the 1921 census. The effect of the land reform and colonisation in the Lendva region during the two World Wars could predominantly be seen in the ethnic composition and the property structure of the area. If we compare the data concerning the mother tongue of the two censuses performed in the Hungarian Era, in 1910 and in 1941 - that is the data of the censuses before and after the colonisation and land reform - it turns out that the proportion of Hungarians, Slovenians and other nationals in the Lendva region changed by nearly 10%. The colonists played a decisive role in the nearly 10% change of proportion to the advantage of those with Slovenian mother tongue and to the disadvantage of those with Hungarian mother tongue, since they did not speak Hungarian and therefore made up the group of those regarding themselves Slovenian. The changes in the ethnicity of the region were topped by the migration of Hungarians excluded from the land reform. The colonisation between the two World Wars also had an effect on the Hungarian-Slovenian language border. The previously distinctly detached language border “blurred” and turned into a mosaic in the Lendva region. Out of the 15,959 cadastral acre and 2,235 square metre area of the Alsólendva Esterházy estate that came to belong to the Yugoslavian state, in the end 15,612 cadastral acres and 646 square metres were distributed. Out of that, 6,717 cadastral acres and 210 square metres of forest were purchased by the Kőrös Property Community (we have no information as of yet regarding how the forest was divided between the Lendva region and the areas outside it), while 8,895 cadastral acres and 435 square metres were distributed in accordance with the act liquidating the land reform and the facultative land purchase act. The estate was thus left with the management of 347 cadastral acres and 1590 square metres. Out of the 7,343 cadastral acres and 3,780 square metres of cultivable area, those with local agrarian interests were provided with 4,772 cadastral acres and 1,106 square metres of land. Among the colonists of various rights and the dobrovoljaces - according to record office sources -1,912 cadastral acres and 5,450 square metres of cultivable land was distributed. The Dobronak and Alsólendva 412
