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Commemorative ‘city-text’ — including street names and memorials — in Hungary has experienced transformations with every major shift in power-holding elites and their ideologies. This chapter examines street names in Budapest, showing how the ‘city-text’ is a mixture of local, national and transnational elements. Focusing on the transnational, it explores the shifts from the nineteenth century to the present.
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Palonen, E. (2015). The Politics of Street Names: Local, National, Transnational Budapest. In: Beyen, M., Deseure, B. (eds) Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137469380_3
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