Name search
Enter a locality name or its fragment (at least three characters), and choose a search option (starts with / matches / contains / ends with the name you typed in). E.g. for the search term “banya” the different search options give the following results:
Capitals are optional: “budapest” and “Budapest” give the same hit. Search terms are recommended to enter without diacritical marks, as stored names are retrieved by the program both with and without diacritical marks (e.g. Úrkút can be found with “úrkút” és “urkut” search terms), but an incorrect usage of the diacritical marks may cause an unsuccessful search. Hyphen must be replaced by a space in searches without diacritics (e.g. “róka-hegy” or “roka hegy” but not “roka-hegy”).
Other searches
From among the other search possibilities, feature, country and the type of the administrative unit can be selected from the corresponding drop-down lists. Having selected the type of the administrative unit, its name should be entered in the proper box. (Search option is “starts with”, therefore only the first few letters of the name of the administrative unit should be typed in, provided that it is a unique sequence among all the names. Do not use diacritical marks and write spaces instead of hyphens.)
South-western and north-eastern co-ordinates (degree and minute) of the defined rectangle should be entered for co-ordinate rectangle search.
Combined search
(1) Name search and the other searches can be combined. Any kind of search can be omitted from or included in the combination. Examples:
General remarks: Search is performed among all stored name variants, whereas the initial list and the full data set give only the latest name data (usually the actual name). This may obscure the relation between the search term and the results, e.g. results for the name search “Kisbánya” are Băișoara, Banky, Chiuzbaia, because the (official or unofficial) Hungarian name of these localities was Kisbánya.
1) Results, initial list
Search results are first displayed in an initial list containing only a selection of the data. Hits are arranged alphabetically (disregarding diacritics) according to the “latest name data” column. Data shown are country, province, county and feature of the locality. Full data set and name variants belonging to locality names can be displayed by selecting the desires name(s) and clicking on the proper button.
Attention! One must select the locality name even if there is only one name in the list.
2) Results, full data set
This page can be reached from the “initial list” or from the “name variants” page.
General remarks:
Latest name data: Names of populated places: official name; other names in Hungary: as given in the Gazetteer of geographical names of Hungary or on recent tourist maps, other names outside Hungary: as given in the newest available sources. Geographical names beginning with an appellative noun are written in reverse order, e.g. Gutâi, Munții.
Feature: Only one type of feature is given, even if the same name refers to more features in the same area (e.g. a mount and a mining area named after it).
Country: “+” denotes localities extending to the territory of two or more countries.
Province: High-level administrative unit: Bundesland (Austria), województwo (Poland), kraj (Slovakia), oblast’ (Ukraine); “–” denotes the lack of higher administrative units (e.g. in Hungary); “+” denotes localities extending to the territory of two or more provinces.
County: Low-level administrative unit: Bezirk (Austria), upanije (Croatia), megye (Hungary), powiat (Poland), județ (Romania), opština (Serbia), kraj (Slovakia), rayon (Ukraine); “+” denotes localities extending to the territory of two or more counties. Remark: Hungarian towns with county rights are considered to belong to the surrounding county except for Budapest, which is treated separately
Comuna (ROM): Name of commune seat (comuna), comprising the villages (sat) in Romania.
County (as of 1913): Administrative unit of the locality in 1913; “+” denotes localities extending to the territory of two or more counties or over the fomer boundaries of Hungary (as of 1913).
Region: Historical regions (historical-geographical units) are defined as follows (counties as of 1913): Banat (Krassó-Szörény, Temes, Torontál); Bukowina; Galicia; Transylvania (Alsó-Fehér, Beszterce-Naszód, Brassó, Csík, Fogaras, Háromszék, Hunyad, Kis-Küküllő, Kolozs, Maros-Torda, Nagy-Küküllő, Szilágy, Szeben, Szolnok-Doboka, Torda-Aranyos, Udvarhely). – denotes localities outside of these regions; “+” denotes localities extending over the territory of any of the regions.
Co-ordinates: Populated place: centre; elevation, pass: highest point; valley/stream: (centre of) mouth; other features: centre.
Relative position: (Usually for localities with unknown co-ordinates) this field gives the name of a nearby populated place and the distance and direction of the locality from this point, or other data about its relationship to this place (e.g. “part of” if the locality is a part of this populated place).
Ref. loc. is in (county): The county-level administrative unit of the reference locality (the populated place given in the field Relative position).
Remarks: Remarks to the data.
This page can be reached from the “initial list” or from the “full data set” page. All spelling or language variants of the name of the chosen localities are listed in alphabetical order, accompanied with the latest name data and the administrative data.