A Hungarian Geopolitical Theory between the Two World Wars: The Naturalised Idea of the Holy Crown

Abstract

In the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century  warfare and foreign policy ideologies were suggested on  many fields of science. Geography as geopolitics was certainly one of these fields. Geopolitical thinking had  serious significance in the political thought of countries  having long shores, and terrene countries, like Hungary as well. Two main branches of geopolitical ideas occurred in  Hungary at that time. One took natural phenomena as real  or desired borders of Hungary as a basic issue, the other  listened to the special position of Hungary between  different cultures. This paper deals with one of the  ideologies based on the natural borders of Hungary, the naturalised idea of the Holy Crown.