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The Development of the Interior of Nagyiván

areas that must have been there before as well. The dead-end streets, nooks and alleys having been created at several locations all indicate the changing in the structure of the settlement. They remained until the second half of the 20

th century. The centre of Nagyiván continued developing in the first half of the 20

lh century. The centre of gravity of the settlement was formed by the church and the clergy-house and the nearby religious school rebuilt from the 1930s onwards. The village-modernisation programme launched after World War I largely contributed to the developments that had been felt necessary for decades before (driveway, wells, settlement-planning etc.) The outlook of the village had remained quite archaic until the end of the 1960s with its sites without fencing, whitewashed and thatched dwelling-houses so different from those of the neighbouring villages. The zigzagged system of roads, the reed-beds embracing the end of the gardens, the brooks, the navvy-holes becoming morass gave a special mood to the treeless and motionless settlement. It was the colour of the forefronts and then the building of steel concrete fences that marked the change. 195