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Hungarians in Eastern Slavonia – Their Roots, Life and Disappearance

This study will be made as a case-study based on one Hungarian family in the eastern- Slavonian village of Vladislavci. It will be divided in two main parts - first is the "historian" one - bringing the particularities of the historian development of the village itself, and the second one - analysing how did the global political, cultural, social and economical changes influence the family in the 20th and at the beginning of the 21th century (mainly 1945.-2010.). The emphasis will be on the ethnical identity of the family members, or better to say, how did it change through the years, then, what is their picture of "the others" (other nationalities) and, especially, how did the Croatian Homeland war (1991.-1995.) influence their lives. The supplement of the study will be a video-file in which the eldest members of the family (born in 1936. and 1938.), as well as the youngest ones (born in 2000.) will bring their views of their lives and their village in the past and today. Significance of this study is in the subjects it studies - the Hungarians - which have nearly disappeared from the eastern Slavonia, and today is only a few hundreds of them left in that entire region (for the comparison, there was a few thousands of them there only a couple of decades ago). Though, as the study will show, they also have a unique identity, which is neither Hungarian, German, Croatian, European, Slavonian, but also - all of the mentioned ones.

Hungarians in Croatia; Eastern Slavonia; national minorities

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