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Turanism, the myth of Hungarian origins

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“Eastward, Magyar!

History of Hungarian Tourism”, by Balázs Ablonczy.

© EHESS Editions

By: Sylvie Noël Follow

Can a European nation think of itself as Asian?

This is the paradox of Hungary.

The awakening to modern nationalism was accompanied in this country by the emergence of a doctrine, Turanism, which attributes to the Hungarians a supposed kinship with the Turco-Mongol peoples.

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It is this ideology that Balázs Ablonczy, former director of the Hungarian Institute in Paris, teacher at the Elte University in Budapest, explores in Eastward

, Magyar!

History of Hungarian tourism,

 published by EHESS editions.

He retraces the golden age, the decline and then the revival of this current of thought which is little known in the West.

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