RECENT ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUNGARIAN SETTLEMENT NETWORK WITHIN THE EUROPEAN STRUCTURE: After Settlement History and Theory Investigations by Dr. Jenő Major

Abstract

Due to investigations by Dr. Jenő Major on settlement history and theory, main trends of Hungarian urbanization and settlement network development offer an insight into the development of European settlement network. His - partly archival - research results underlying settlement science methodology are without precedence. It is attempted to fit development aspects of the Hungarian settlement network to the new regional structures of the to-be United States of Europe. A survey is given of the rapid urbanization process in Hungary after the Mongol invasion, of periods of mediaeval urbanization surges, as well as of the settlement network of industrializing-capitalizing Hungary. Inter-war settlement development, and urbanization surge after World War II point to he intensity of relations between town aud country.