Centrumok és perifériák a Monarchia szétesése után : az új határok racionalitásának vizsgálata gravitációs modellek alapján

Absztrakt

The authors aim to investigate the racionality of the new borders based on 4 different and independent methods applied to examine whether the successor states fulfill the requirements of ideal state in geographical terms or not, comparing the results with the situation in 1850 and 1910. Apart from the area/perimeter ratio mainly social geographical methods, like the shift of the center of gravity (weighted by the role of geographical barriers, like mountains), the shift of equipotencial lines (in case of attraction zones), the applicability of the Chrystaller model were used to evaluate the results.
The limits of the attraction zones tended to match the Hungarian border in north and south within the whole era, and the strange shape of Vienna’s attraction zone also equaled with Greater Austria (without Hungary) and Bosnia. Romania’s attraction zone remained nearly constant, including the eaternmost part of Transylvania Belgrade’s sphere of influence did not reach even Nis in 1850, but by 1940 Timisoara also became the part of its zone of attraction. A neutral zone belonging to nobody could be assigned to the Novi Sad-Timisoara-Cluj line.