Miskolc - a Central and Eastern European City in the Crossroads

Viktória Józsa

doi:10.32725/det.2020.023

Abstract

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There is such vitality in this city, that if the smallest opportunity opens for it, enormous energies will start to operate” (Zsigmond Móricz, 1930)
The main objective of this study is to present the overarching history of a second-tier city in Central and Eastern Europe from its foundation to the current era and beyond, to the plans for the EU programming period between 2021–2027
Miskolc is a typical example of a Central and Eastern European city that has experienced through its history all global tendencies and major shocks starting from an oppidum, through the privileged free royal city status to municipal law rights, prioritized beneficiary of socialist industrialisation and soon after one of the main industrial crisis zones of the county to depression, pathfinding, slow recovery and repositioning in our days

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Introduction

There is such vitality in this city, that if the smallest opportunity opens for it, enormous energies will start to operate” (Zsigmond Móricz, 1930). The main objective of this study is to present the overarching history of a second-tier city in Central and Eastern Europe from its foundation to the current era and beyond, to the plans for the EU programming period between 2021–2027. Three types of relief can be found in its area, dolomitic mountains, hill-country formed by the sea and terrestrial sedimental and volcanic rocks (Avas), and plain countryside (bordered by Sajó river and streams arriving from the mountains such as Szinva, Hejő and Bódva). These were good preconditions for both crop production (especially graveyards) and animal husbandry. The area of Miskolc has been a North-East Hungarian target location for the continuous migrations of historic ages

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