Séminaire Agorantic 2025/26 HS - Gábor Demeter

Titre : The possibilities and limitations of serial sources in analyzing regional differences in peasant farming and quality of life in the Kingdom of Hungary [1715–1828]: the GISta Hungarorum project

Résumé : The GISta Hungarorum project was launched in 2014 and began with the processing of settlement-level data from the 1910 census. The main objective of the project is to organize all country-wide settlement-level data into a database between the 1720 tax conscription and the 1910 census—including tax or urbarial conscriptions and historical censuses. Such a database enables (1) the examination of the regional differences in socio-economic-demographic indicators, the identification of the nature and extent of inequalities, and the reconstruction of rural development conditions.  (2) It allows the examination of the regional differences of socio-economic-demographic conditions, inequalities, and changes in development levels over time in time horizons 1720, 1786, 1828, 1880, and 1910.  (3) The project visualizes the above phenomena on maps and allows the application of historical statistical (even cliometric) methods. (4) In order to promote applied research, our goal includes linking our integrated historical database with contemporary geographical databases on research of peripheries, as well as to integrate previously created or parallelly developed databases and Geographic Information Systems covering the pre-18th century period (Medieval and Ottoman eras).   (5) In addition to historical statistical data, external variables (soil conditions and morphology—considered as conservative factors—availability of raw materials, distance from water sources and roads, etc.) have also been included in the database.

Orateur : Gábor Demeter (b. 1980) is a senior research fellow at HUN-REN Institute of History (former HAS). Holds a PhD both in History and Earth Sciences. Habilitated in historical geography at the University of Debrecen. His special field of interest includes the diplomatic and socio-economic history of the Balkans and Austria-Hungary, and historical GIS (GISta Hungarorum), historical statistics, historical geography, environmental history. Deputy leader of the Hungarian-Bulgarian Joint Academic Committee of Historians (editor of series BHHC and Hungarian Historical Review), member of the editorial board of Istoricheski Pregled, Makedonski Pregled, Hiperboreea, Review of Croatian History.

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