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With the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian empire following the first world
war, with the founding of Kingdom of Serbs-Croats-Slovenians on the 1st of
December 1918 and the Trianon peace treaty in 1920, the Hungarians in
Vojvodina became a minority. Therefore an entire new chapter followed in
their political, social, industrial and cultural lives. The period of living
as a minority, independent literary and cultural life, which was the polar
opposite of their previous life, aimed at creating an independent, specific
path of development. This new approach is best seen in Hungarian minority
press in Vojvodina. Only two titles remain from the earlier period:
B?csmegyei Napl? (Diary of Bacsmegye) from Subotica and Torontal from
Nagybecskerek - Zrenjanin; also two new titles were issued: Delbacska (South
Bacska) in Novi Sad, Hirlap (Gazette) I Subotica and Kozakarat (Public Will)
in Nagybecskerek. It should be noted that approximately 200 other Hungarian
press titles were present in the period between the two world wars in
Vojvodina. All these press titles were characterized by a difficult material
status and the struggles to survive, struggles with cencorship and the
search for themes and possibilities of expression, and also the appearance
of journalistic sensationalism.

One of the most cited pieces of Banat?s native history is certainly the
Torontal County monograph by Dr. Borovszky Samu, published in Budapest in
1912 in Hungarian, which is one of the comprehensive analyzes of the history
of Banat settlements, and also one of the first summary reviews of the
ethnography of the peoples of this region, including Romanians. When
collecting ethnographic material in the field, Borovski compiled detailed
ethnographic questionnaires with 44 important questions, and sent them to
the settlements in Banat, to the local notaries, to make sure that they
complied, and to return the completed ones for analytical processing. The
result of the collection of these data was surprisingly richer than
expected, and in the ethnographic part of the monograph he edited, he
managed to process it only briefly, so to speak, in the notes. Thus, his
legacy includes a detailed collection of ethno-material, which was largely
unprocessed in detail, and is now preserved in the Ethnographic Museum in
Budapest. From this collection of completed ethnographic questionnaires, we
have researched those relating to the wedding customs of Romanians in Uzdin
and Seleu?, collected in 1911, which are part of the first systematic
ethnographic processing of Romanians in Banat. The purpose of this work was
to draw the attention of the expert public, especially the ethnographer, to
this important, but largely unknown, ethnographic material.