{"id":4109,"date":"2022-06-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rusynsociety.com\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2022-06-03T12:41:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T17:41:03","slug":"rusyn-related-streets-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rusynsociety.com\/rul\/2022\/06\/01\/rusyn-related-streets-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Rusyn-Related Streets in Budapest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the very heart of Budapest, where Alkotm\u00e1ny (Constitution) Street exits to the grand edifice of the House of Parliament, a new monument appeared two years ago, in 2020. It is a 100-meter-long and four-meter-wide walkway sloping down below the street level and framed with two side walls consisting of granite bricks with inscribed names of all 12,485 settlements that were registered in the Kingdom of Hungary (then part of the Dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy) by the 1913 census. It means that a visitor will see there the names of all cities, towns, and villages located now in Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, and Austria that used to be part of Hungary over a century ago. The monument is called The Togetherness Memorial<\/a><\/em>, and it was erected to commemorate the centenary of what Hungarians consider the greatest tragedy in the history of their country \u2013 the Trianon Peace Treaty according to which Hungary had been bereft of 72% of its territory and 64% of the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name of each settlement is inscribed on a separate brick, while the bricks themselves are of three sizes, depending on the amount of population of the respective settlement during the 1913 census. The names appear randomly \u2013 not in alphabetic or any other order, so it would take you a while to find your town \u2013 unless you have ascertained its whereabouts beforehand from the Memorial\u2019s website here: https:\/\/www.oeh.hu\/telepulesnev-kereso<\/a>. As far as all historical Rusyn settlements were located in the Kingdom of Hungary, they all are on the list. The only thing to remember is that all names are written in their old Hungarian form, which is why in order to find, say, Star\u00e1 \u013dubov\u0148a one should type in \u00d3lubl\u00f3; Ruski Krstur would be B\u00e1cskereszt\u00far; and Yasinia \u2013 K\u0151r\u00f6smez\u0151. Then two pictures would be seen: in the upper one, the entire wall with the segment where the brick with the searched settlement shown in a red frame would appear; the lower picture would feature the enlarged part of the wall with the settlement\u2019s name framed in red. Still, a little bit lower, there would be the link leading to the map of historical Hungary with the geographical whereabouts of the searched settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pathway leads a visitor to the Monument\u2019s Heart located five meters below the street level. It consists of seven separate segments, with the eternal flame burning behind them in the middle of the structure. The seven segments symbolize seven countries that received territories of the Kingdom of Hungary in consequence of the Trianon Treaty, and the boulder holding the eternal flame symbolizes Csonkamagyarorsz\u00e1g, \u201cthe truncated Hungary,\u201d which was a widely used name for the country between the two world wars. What is more, if visitors would stand by the back wall of the \u2018heart\u2019 facing toward the building of the Parliament, they would not be able to see at once both the Parliament and the flame (or, according to the architect\u2019s idea, \u2018the Parliament burning in fire\u2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nostalgic feeling about the lost territories is also reflected in the names of many streets in Budapest. For instance, a bunch of streets in Buda bear names united under the common frame \u201cTrianon Living with Us.\u201d In this picturesque hilly part of the city, a stroller can bump into many streets named after the towns, mountains, or rivers that quit being part of Hungary after the Trianon Treaty. The nameplates for these streets are accompanied by the following inscription: \u201cIn 1920, the Hungary we knew of for a thousand years ceased to exist. The loss of two-thirds of the country has been affecting the life of our fatherland until now. The effect of the Trianon Treaty has been felt until nowadays. During the last century, lots of public places throughout the country, including Buda, have been named after settlements and geographic places that used to be part of historical Hungary, thereby expressing the feeling of unity of the Carpathian Basin.\u201d Beneath this text, the name of the street is put accompanied with a brief explanation of the place, and a statement saying that \u201cthe injuries caused by the national traumas can be dwelt with and treated only by common effort, which is why on the 100th<\/sup> anniversary of the Trianon Peace Treaty the Mayor\u2019s Office commemorates the seized territories<\/a> with these plaques.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the list of the streets named after places connected with Rusyns:<\/p>\n\n\n\n