Magyar Királyi Állami Térképészet (M. Kir. Állami Térképészet)
Magyar Királyi Állami Térképészet (1867 - 1952), translated 'Royal Hungarian State Cartography,' was a Hungarian government map publishing house active in the early 20th century. The organization can trace its origins to the Austro–Hungarian Compromise of 1867, which gave Hungary marginal independence with the right to establish its own civil cartography - thus issuing tourist maps, school maps, cadastral plans, etc. Austria retained jurisdiction over more detailed topographical cartography. This changed in 1918, during World War I (1914 - 1918), when Hungarian military leadership commissioned Colonel Lajos Hajts (1866 - 1933), professor of the Ludovika Military Academy, to lay the framework for a Hungarian State Cartography. This led to the formation of the Hungarian Military Mapping Group (Magyar Katonai Térképező) on February 4, 1919. This organization followed the Austrian Militärgeographisches Institut model. In 1922, the name changed to Magyar Királyi Katonai Állami Térképezet (Royal Hungarian State Mapping Institute). In 1938, the name changed again to Magyar Királyi Honvéd Térképészeti Intézet (Royal Hungarian Institute of Military Cartography). The Honvéd Térképészeti Intézet was folded into the Soviet-style Ministry of Defense in 1952.
AKA: M. Kir. Állami Térképészet
Tourism in the midst of WWII.
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This is a 1940 Royal Hungarian Institute of Military Cartography map of Transcarpathia (Kárpátalja), today part of Ukraine known as Zakarpattia Oblast. The map was published less than a year after Hungary annexed the independent republic of Carpatho-Ukraine (discussed below). (more details)
Hungarian Transylvania.
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This is a 1942 Royal Hungarian Institute of Military Cartography map of Székely Land (Székelyföld in Hungarian). This region was awarded to Hungary as part of the Second Vienna Award in August 1940 by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. (more details)
Romania's 'Hungarian Lands'.
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This is a large-format 1942 map of the Rodna Mountains in the Eastern Carpathians produced by the Royal Hungarian Institute of Military Cartography. An example of wartime cartographic propaganda, the map both reflected and helped cement the control of this region by Hungary, to which it was granted in the Second Vienna Award of 1940, an 'agreement' brokered by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. (more details)