GISta Hungarorum – An Integrated and Visualized Municipal Level HGIS Database of the Kingdom of Hungary and Its Successor States (1330–2010)

Gábor Demeter; Beatrix F. Romhányi; Éva Szepesiné Simon; János Pénzes; István Papp; Zsolt Horbulák; Róbert Bagdi

doi:10.12775/SG.2025.03

Autori

Gábor Demeter HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3855-2823
Beatrix F. Romhányi Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Budapest, Hungary https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1121-2933
Éva Szepesiné Simon National Archives of Hungary, Budapest, Hungary https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3434-661X
János Pénzes University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4870-087X
István Papp University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5884-5053
Zsolt Horbulák University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9862-0827
Róbert Bagdi University of Debrecen, Hungary https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3340-391X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12775/SG.2025.03

Parole chiave

hGIS, digital humanities, fine-scale databases, statistical analysis, historical geography, regional inequalities, development trends, longue durée history, Kingdom of Hungary

Abstract

Project GISta Hungarorum (2014–) aims to collect, integrate and visualize settlement level serial data sources from the 14th to the 21st centuries for the former area of the Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia (12,500 settlements, 300,000 sq. km), partly published online by the National Archives of Hungary, partly unpublished, in a form of a geospatial database (http://gistahungarorum.abtk.hu). This umbrella project links historical research and modern territorial planning through its GIS-aided approach and offers new insights into unsettled historical questions through hundreds of thematic cartograms and the statistical analysis of 10 million records.

Biografie autore

Gábor Demeter, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary

Gábor Demeter – geographer (PhD hab.) and historian (DSc), at ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History. Leader of the GISta Hungarorum project, involved in Balkanology, cliometry, historical geography, diplomatic history, and economic history. His responsibilities include the 18th- and 19th-century datasets and shapefiles, as well as the creation of indicators and thematic maps for the project.

Beatrix F. Romhányi , Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Budapest, Hungary

Beatrix F. Romhányi – DSc, professor of medieval history at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary and senior research fellow at the ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities. Her current work combines historical demography, archaeology, and GIS to analyze spatial and institutional structures in medieval East Central Europe. Responsible for medieval datasets and shapefiles (14th–16th c.).

Éva Szepesiné Simon, National Archives of Hungary, Budapest, Hungary

Éva Szepesiné Simon – PhD, historian, Ottomanist, and senior archivist at the National Archives of Hungary. PI of several projects in Ottoman Studies, including the Collection of Ottoman Registers, which is being integrated into GISta Hungarorum. She is responsible for data collection, integration, and visualization for 16th- and 17th-century materials. Her task included localizing settlements and creating the template structure to process four different types of defters.

János Pénzes , University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

János Pénzes – PhD hab., geographer, associate professor, University of Debrecen (Hungary), Institute of Earth Sciences. His research fields include socio-economic inequalities, spatial development patterns, and ethno-demographic processes in Hungary and Central Europe. In the present article, he is responsible for integrating settlement-level data for successor states of the Kingdom of Hungary after 2000.

István Papp , University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

István Papp – geographer and GIS specialist; PhD student at the Doctoral School of Earth Sciences, University of Debrecen. As a GIS data analyst and application developer (CAD+Inform Ltd., Debrecen), his task was to eliminate the problem of administrative changes over time by optimizing and implementing weighted grid methods in GISta Hungarorum.

Zsolt Horbulák , University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia

Zsolt Horbulák – PhD hab., senior research fellow at Széll Kálmán Public Finance Lab., Ludovika University of Public Service, Budapest. Graduated from Comenius University in the field of Hungarian language and history, and from Bratislava University of Economics and Business. He focuses on economic history. His tasks included integrating post-1945 data into the database.

Róbert Bagdi, University of Debrecen, Hungary

Róbert Bagdi – PhD, graduated from the University of Debrecen in history and geography. Works at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Debrecen. His special field of interest is historical geography. His tasks included identifying and localizing settlements, harmonizing settlement names, and geocoding.

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