Regionális különbségek Erdélyben az 1750-es összeírás alapján
Regional Differences in Transylvania Based on the 1750 Conscription Data

Summary/Abstract: The study aims to describe and analyze the territorial differences in Transylvania in the middle of the 18th c. prior to the implementation of the new tax-system. Based on the critical analysis of socio-economic phenomena of the 1750 conscription, more than 1500 settlements were classified into groups based on the similarity of their features. Cluster analysis allows the researcher to identify spatial patterns (dispersed or concentrated), as well as to identify the specific, distinctive features of the generated groups. Though the method is rarely used in history research, especially in the case of old datasets, because of the inherent problems, we tried to exploit the advantages to investigate the following phenomena: (1) whether the spatial pattern of clusters coincides with the location of the three political nations (+Romanians), or not (in the latter case the socio-economic differences were not so explicit to create fault lines based on ethnicity); (2) based on the average values of socio-economic indicators, between-group differences in development level can also be investigated beside the level of similarity-dissimilarity; (3) finally, the spatial patterns of the clusters allow us to compare the generated sub-regions with existing administrative boundaries or with the boundaries of ethnographic regions and landscapes.

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