Hungarian remembrance places beyond the border – Hungarian National Name Directory

The National Heritage Institute (NHI) considers the collection, registration and dissemination of Hungarian places of remembrance beyond the border among as wide an audience as possible to be a mission of outstanding importance. For this reason, it has established as an independent development the Remembrance Place Name Directory on the Hungarian National Name Directory platform, which complements the Personal Name Directory, Geographical Name Directory and the Board Name Directory under the management of the National Széchényi Library. Via the different related data, individual name directories are interoperable for users.

The Places of remembrance Name Directory not only presents national and historical Places of remembrance, as well as graves protected as part of the National Graveyard, but it also contains the database – among others, designation on a map and description of the site – of Hungarian places of remembrance beyond the border. It is possible to search Hungarian places of remembrance beyond the border by settlement, type, state, related person and map reference. The collection can be expanded by external users in the form of suggestions submitted individually or in groups, by completing a data sheet and/or table, which can be accessed using links located at the bottom of the platform.

The outstanding strategic objective of the new system is, on the one hand, to provide support for visitors travelling to Hungarian regions beyond the border strengthening tourism, intellectual and national cohesion, and on the other hand we would like to ensure the possibility for ethnic Hungarian minorities living in the Carpathian Basin and in the more distant diaspora that places, personalities and events that they consider important can be displayed on the nationwide platform, thereby providing a summary of the built heritage of the thousand-year-old Hungarian history, tangible locations verifying the presence of the Hungarian people.

The Hungarian National Name Directory can be accessed at https://magyarnemzetinevter.hu/, and our institution looks forward to receiving questions arising in relation to the Places of remembrance Name Directory by e-mail to emlekhelynevter@nori.gov.hu.