PUSZTA

pooˈstä, arid grasslands that once covered a large part of the Alföld, E Hungary. They were used for extensive cattle raising. With the irrigation and drainage projects of the late 19th cent., the Puszta disappeared except in the small Hortobagy region (c.100 sq mi/260 sq km), near Debrecen. Old customs of the Puszta are preserved there, mainly for the tourist trade.

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books on: Puszta  - 92 results

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The Whirlpool of Europe
Book by Ethel Colquhoun, Archibald R. Colquhoun; Dodd, Mead & Company, 1907
Subjects: Austria--Politics And Government
...Farmyard Labourers, on Puszta. Mosinger, Agram 114 Csikos, on Puszta, near Debreczen. Mosinger, Agram...Scene on Puszta 116 FACING PAGE...
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New Light on Liszt and His Music: Essays in Honor of Alan Walker's 65th Birthday
Book by Michael Saffle, James Deaville; Pendragon Press, 1997
Subjects: Liszt, Franz--1811-1886--Criticism And Interpretation
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Austria-Hungary: Including Dalmatia and Bosnia; Handbook for Travellers
Book by Karl Baedeker; K. Baedeker, 1905
Subjects: Austria--Guidebooks
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The Danube
Book by Emil Lengyel; Random House, 1939
Subjects: Austria, Balkan Peninsula, Danube River, Danube River Valley, Europe--Politics And Government--1918-1945, Germany, Hungary
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Hungary
Book by Ernst C. Helmreich; Praeger, 1957
...America. Formerly, these grasslands, called puszta, were used for extensive livestock grazing...have almost completely eliminated the puszta character of the section between the...layer of loess and sand, enabling the puszta to support a dense population. The only...
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journal articles on: Puszta  - 7 results

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The Proximity of the Strange
Journal article by Klaus Hoffer; World Literature Today, Vol. 69, 1995
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...thrown onto separate estates (known as pusztas ) 1 under unheard-of conditions. There...Illyes, who had himself grown up on a puszta and had written down his childhood impressions...about the life of these eastern Austrian puszta -dwellers with my vague knowledge of...
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Cinematizing the Euripidean and Sophoclean Spatial Dialectics: on the "skene-self" in Pasolini's Medea and Edipo Re
Journal article by Saviour Catania; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 28, 2000
Subjects: Greek civilization, Motion picture criticism, Pasolini, Pier Paolo, Theater
...aesthetically to Jancsos Elektra Szerelmem where Gyurko6s Sophoclean preoccupations are entirely absorbed and visually re-expressed by Puszta or Hungarian plain elements. Perhaps this is what Oliver Taplin meant when he states that while he thinks that two of Cacoyanniss...
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Eastern European Cinema
Journal article by Dina Iordanova; Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 51, 1999
Subjects: Curricula, Eastern Europe, Motion pictures
...father against son and explores the making of a traitor. The films aesthetics glorify the barren landscape of the Hungarian puSZta, bearing a de Chirico-like quality. The camerawork juxtaposes extreme low and high angles within a persistent, medium close...
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An Examination of Historians' Explanations for the Mongol Withdrawal from East Central Europe
Journal article by Greg S. Rogers; East European Quarterly, Vol. 30, 1996
Subjects: Eastern Europe--13th century AD, Mongols--History, Thirteenth century--Military aspects, War--13th century AD, Wars--13th century AD
...also agrees with this assessment. "But in truth Mongol desire for pasture for their horses necessitated the occupation of the puszta, the rich Hungarian prairie, which they might then make a base for the conquest of Western Europe, just as the plain of Azerbaijan...
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Subverting Strong States: The Dialectics of Social Engineering in Hungary and Turkey
Journal article by Chris Hann; Daedalus, Vol. 124, 1995
Subjects: Collective farms--Political aspects, Government monopolies--Management, Hungary--Social policy, State (Political science)--Powers and duties, Tea industry--Political aspects, Turkey--Social policy
...places do so not because of the economic rationality of family farming, nor because they value the spiritual freedom of the puszta, but simply because they have no practical alternative. Many tanyas provide useful bases for quasi-legal or illegal business...
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magazine articles on: Puszta  - 9 results

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Hungary through Gastronomy - as Hungary Steps out of the Shadow of Communism, It Plans to Attract More Tourism by Showcasing Its Excellent Food and Wine Industries
Magazine article by Linda Joyce Forristal; World and I, Vol. 16, May 2001
Subjects: Food--Portrayals, Hungary--Description and travel, Wine and wine making--Hungary, Wine making--Hungary
...the wine towns of the region. On the puszta When the average American thinks of...flat, fertile plain commonly called the Puszta but more accurately referred to as the...restaurants or inns--that dot the vast Puszta, occupying two-thirds of Hungary lying...
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Sátántangó
Magazine article by J. Hoberman; The Village Voice, Vol. 51, January 11-Jan 17 2006
...esteemed, if still untranslated, novel by Laszlo Krasznahorkai-is a bleakly comic allegory of social disintegration on the muddy puszta. Set on an entropie collective farm during the last years of Hungarian Communism, its a mordant, characteristically Eastern...
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Personnal Best
Magazine article by J. Hoberman; The Village Voice, Vol. 42, January 7, 1997
Subjects: Motion pictures, Ratings & rankings, Year in review
...mournful, bleakly comic, astonishingly staged seven-and-a-half-hour allegorical saga of socal disintegration on the Hungarian puszta. This summer, thanks to Fabiano Canosa and Anthology Film Archives, the movie had something like a theatrical run. More than...
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The Road Ahead for Hungary
Magazine article by Horatio Morpurgo; Contemporary Review, Vol. 273, July 1998
Subjects: Hungary--Economic aspects
...is no respecter of national boundaries. To its south are found large areas of poorer `sodic soils or alkaline pasture, the Puszta, of no use to arable farmers but rich in plant and bird-life if properly grazed. The largest expanses of such pasture are in...
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Who Are the Finns?
Magazine article by Paavo Ravila; Scandinavian Review, Vol. 94, Spring 2007
Subjects: Linguistics, Race, Russian history
...indisputable conclusion at which linguists arrived more than a century and a half ago, that the famed and valiant people of the puszta, the Hungarians, speak a language which is related to Finnish. It is, however, such a distant kinship that it can be proved...
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newspaper articles on: Puszta  - 2 results

 
 
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Get on Your Bike for a Saddle-High View of Hungary
Newspaper article by Gillian Thomas; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), September 5, 1999
...Thomas ALONG, relaxing soak after a day in the saddle - the perfect combination and one I relished while cycling around the Puszta, Great Plain, in Eastern Hungary. The area is dotted with spas whose natural pools steam with hot water from the local springs...
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Best of Budapest Hungarian Fare Spices Up Paprikash in Arlington Heights
Newspaper article by Deborah Pankey; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 28, 2006
Subjects: American Express Co., Credit and debit card industry, Credit card industry, Financial services, Financial services industry, MasterCard International Inc., Restaurants--Restaurant reviews
...Hungarian varieties. Proving that the restaurant isnt stuck in the old country, the bar has a martini menu as well. I tried the Puszta Cocktail, sweet or dry wine mixed with apricot brandy and Hubertus, a Hungarian elixir with orange and herb overtones. This...


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encyclopedia articles on: Puszta  - 3 results

 
 
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Puszta
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PUSZTA poo sta, arid grasslands that once covered a large part...irrigation and drainage projects of the late 19th cent., the Puszta disappeared except in the small Hortobagy region (c.100 sq mi/260 sq km), near Debrecen. Old customs of the Puszta are preserved there, mainly for the tourist trade...
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Steppe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Transbaykal and Manchurian plains. The term is sometimes applied to the corresponding temperate grasslands of Hungary ( Puszta ), the prairies of the United States, the pampas of South America, and the high veld of South Africa; it is sometimes...
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IllyÉs, Gyula
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...universality and an appeal for national and individual liberty mark his later work. See his autobiographical novel, People of the Puszta (1936, tr. 1967); selected poetry in A Tribute to Gyula Illyes, ed. by T. Kabdebo and P. Tabori (1960...


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