TABLE OF CONTENTS

LECTORI SALUTEM

Conditions of Minorities

Károly Kocsis:Findings about the Demographic-Ethnic Geography of Hungarian National Minorities in the Carpathian Basin

Sándor Hódi: Regional Research. Report on a Comparative Investigation

Barna Bodó:From geographical/Historical Regions to the Euro Regions, or the Crystall Ball of Multicultural regionalism

Minority Culture

Béla Pomogáts: Literature and National Consciousness in Hungarian History and in the Culture of Hungarian Minorities

Csaba Kiss Gy: Central European Myths of Conquest

Sándor Horváth: Popular Religiousness

Vilmos Tánczos: The Manifestations of 'szent' in Traditional Prayers of Moldavia and Gyimes

József Faragó: The Fate of the Hungarian University of Kolozsvár - Thoughts on the 125th Anniversary of its Foundation

Bertalan Andrásfalvy: The Distorted Image of the Hungarians

János Péntek: Evaluation of the Hungarian Language by our Neighbours

Minority Politics and Minorities Rights

Kálmán Balla: New Language Law in Slovakia

Jenő Zágoni: The Educational Laws in Romania and Their Bearing on Hungarians (1918 – 1995)

Erzsébet Szalayné Sándor :The Role of the League of Nations and the UN in the Protection of Minorities under International Law

Minorities History

László Szarka: The Minority Politics of the Szemere Government

János Veliky:Kossuth and the National Minorities Issue

Ákos Egyed :Revolution and War of Independence in Transylvania

Ernő Deák :Hungarians through the Mirror of the Viennese Revolutions of 1848