Kovács Attila: Földreform és kolonizáció a Lendva-vidéken a két világháború között (Lendva, 2004)

XVII. Summary

XVII.

Summary

“Land Reform and Colonisation in the Lendva Region between the Two World Wars” presents the Yugoslavian agrarian reform performed during the period between the two World Wars and the colonisations carried out parallel to that in the discussed field. The treble aim of the Yugoslavian land reform and colonisation that took place in the period under analysis; establishing a socially more fair land property structure that would provide higher productivity, national justice against previously dominant nations and the big landlords belonging to them and the colonisation of areas populated by ethnic minorities was significantly present in the Lendva Region too. The agrarian reform and the colonisations brought about the most changes in the land property structure and ethnic division of the country. In knowledge of that, during analysing the agrarian reform and colonisation performed in 18 settlements of the Lendva region - Dobronak, Zsitkóc, Kámaháza, Göntérháza, Radamos, Hidvég, Bánuta, Hosszúfalu, Alsólendva, Alsólakos, Felsőlakos, Gyertyános, Kapca, Kót, Petesháza, Pince, Völgyifalu, and Csente - we lay our main emphasis on the changes in the property composition of the area and presenting the shifts in the ethnic composition and on the Hungarian-Slovenian language border occurring due to the colonisations.

The regulations and laws governing the Yugoslavian land reform and colonisation supported the creation of smallholdings. During the land reform only farm workers without land, or with a land smaller than 10 cadastral acres could get land, an exception being large families with more than 10 members in whose case 1 cadastral acre of rented land was accounted. If there were too many land claimants, land was first distributed among the poorest, however, compensation for the distributed holdings was to be paid by the rightful claimants. The legal prescrip409