Budapest, Hungary/budapest330-historical map

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This historical map contrasts boundaries of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before and after World War I, and dramatizes the extensive amount of land lost by Hungary by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920. Hungary losts two-thirds of its lands. Schemnitz (now known as Banská Štiavnica), the famous mining school, was lost to Slovakia; Sibiu (where Müller von Reichenstein made the initial discovery of tellurium) was lost to Romania. Because of the exchange of land between different cultures and languages, a compendium of equivalent names may be helpful (not all of these are on the map of the present photo):
Besztercebánya: Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
Nagyszeben: Sibiu (Romania) [Hermannstadt = German]
Pozsony: Bratislava (Slovakia) [Pressburg = German]
Selmecbánya: Banská Štiavnica (Slovakia) [Schemnitz = German]
Kolozsvár: Cluj-Napoca (Romania) [Klausenburg = German]
Segesvár: Sighisoara (Romania) [Schässburg = German]
Körmöcbánya: Kremnica (Slovakia) [Kremnitz = German]

Sighisoara in Romania was the birthplace of Dracula {LINK: to Sighisoara}