The HUNGARIAN VILLAGE
FINDER, ATLAS, and GAZETTEER for the KINGDOM of HUNGARY (HVF)-
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DOWNLOAD or on CD-ROM,
lists and provides information for ALL of the towns, villages, cities,
places,
settlements, and place names associated with the region called KARPATALJA
also known as PODKARPATSKA RUS, RUTHENIA, SUBCARPATHIA,
SUBCARPATHIAN RUS,
TRANSCARPATHIA, CARPATHO-UKRAINE, ZAKARPATSKA, ZAKARPATIA or
ZAKARPATTIA and ZAKARPATTYA.
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Comprised
primarily of the four north-eastern
counties of the old Kingdom of Hungary including Bereg, Maramaros,
Ugocsa, and
Ung megyes/vármegyes, throughout history, the area currently
referred to as
Zakarpatska Oblast in the Ukraine has been known by many different
names.
To the Hungarians, it has always been called Karpatalja. After
World War
I, when the Kingdom of Hungary was broken up under the Treaty of
Trianon in
1918 and the new country of Czechoslaovakia was formed, the region was
called Podkarpatská
Rus, Ruthenia,
or Rusinsko. Following World War II, when it came under the rule
of the
Soviets as part of Ukraine, the region came to be known as
Transcarpathia and
Zakarpatt'ja.
Today, depending on
where you are and who you are talking to, it is still called by
all of these names as well as others including Karpatho-Ukraine,
Carpatho-Ukraine, Subcarpathia, Sub-Carpathian Rus,
Zakarpatt'ja, Zakarpattia, Zakarpatia and Zakarpatska.
Like the
region in which it lies, it is quite
possible for the village of one's birth to also have acquired several
names. Although in a person’s lifetime they may have never lived
anywhere
else, a record of baptism in 1916 might show Kisgejõcz, Hungary
as the
birthplace, Malê Gejovce, Czechoslovakia as the place of marriage
in 1935, and
in 1978, Mali Hejivci, Ukraine as the place of death. Nor would
it be
unusual for changes in governments, policies, laws, etc., to create new
variations for an old name. Thus, Kisgejõc, Kis
Gejõcz, Kisgeõcz,
Kisgeõc, Kis-Gõcz, and its current name Maloye Geyovtse, along with
those
mentioned earlier, are all one and the same place.
The HUNGARIAN VILLAGE
FINDER, ATLAS, and GAZETTEER for the KINGDOM of HUNGARY (HVF)-contains
place names / placenames in Croatian,
German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Ukrainian,
and Serbian--along
with alternate spellings, native names, official names, Magyarized
names, old
and new names, and former and current names. Also included are
the names
and locations of smaller settlements such as pusztas, csardas, tanyas,
etc.,
ALL alphabetized using the Arabic alphabet (English) into single,
comprehensive
indexes. In other words, YOU do not need to know what language a
learned
place name is in order to locate it in the HVF!
To
see a list of both old or former (Hungarian) and new or current
(Ukrainian) placenames in what is now Zakarpatska Oblast, Ukraine click
on the following link:
Karpatalja
- Transcarpathia - Zakarpatska - Atlas - Gazetteer Placenames
To see the list of place names for villages, towns, and cities located
within each megye (county) when it was part of the Kingdom of
Hungary, click on any of the following:
Bereg county, megye, varmegye
Maramaros county, megye, varmegye
Ugocsa county, megye, varmegye
Ung county, megye, varmegye
For a GENEALOGY GUIDE on how to begin your
research or how to locate ancestral cities, towns, places, settlements,
and villages located in the Kingdom of Hungary, take a look at the
following:
Kingdom of
Hungary Genealogy Guide
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Based on the 1877
Hungarian Gazetteer "Magyarorszag Helysegnevtara" by Janos Dvorzsak, the
HUNGARIAN VILLAGE FINDER,
ATLAS, and GAZETTER for the KINGDOM of HUNGARY CD-ROM—
Is a comprehensive dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas, gazetteer, and
directory with indexes of placenames for villages, settlements, towns,
communities, and cities in the former Kingdom of Hungary (pre 1918),
including those now located in Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland,
Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and Serbia / Yugoslavia.
Functions as a village finder, place locator, and town seeker when
conducting a place name search.
Uses official, native, conventional, variant, and current names to make
finding a place of interest a more likely probability.
Allows for partial name or word searching when available records are
difficult to read and only a few letters are legible.
Has reference maps for
individual countries, megyes / varmegyes (counties), AND for every járás
(district) located within each county. These so-called district
maps show the location of the
villages that were once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire!
Also includes indexed county / megye directories listing local churches
and nearby parishes (to help locate ancestor birth, marriage, and death
records), information on population and ethnicity of major inhabitants,
current country locations with names, as well as other relative
information, research aids, hints, and “Links” to online/Internet
websites.
No other resource
gives you so much in one place.
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