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Hi Miguel,

Thank you for writing about Carte Rouge! Allow me to add a few things. The methodology of the map is novel, and as you point out, it does indeed favor the Hungarian ethnic group. However, marking one's own ethnicity in red was quite common and has been used in other countries as well. On the other hand, the white spots on the map are not white in order to hide the majority ethnic groups living there, because if that were the case, there would be no white spots in Hungary. They are white because there are mountains, or lakes, and you can see this in Hungary too (Mecsek, Márta, Bükk = mountain peaks, Balaton = lake). The same is true of the Carpathians in Romania and Slovakia. The visual "deception" is partly due to size. It is worth taking a look at Zsigmond Bátky's 1919 map here https://maps.hungaricana.hu/hu/HTITerkeptar/2760/? list=eyJxdWVyeSI6ICJiXHUwMGUxdGt5In0, as well as the Teleki-Bátky-Kogutowicz map from 1940, based on 1910 census data https://maps.hungaricana.hu/hu/HTITerkeptar/2957/? list=eyJxdWVyeSI6ICJiXHUwMGUxdGt5In0, or first of all the gargantuan, apartment-sized ethnic base map commissioned by Teleki, also created by Bátky and Kogutowicz. https://maps.arcanum.com/hu/map/magyarorszag_1910-etnikai/.

After Trianon, dozens of revisionist-irredentist brochures, publications, and atlases of varying quality were published, targeting an international audience. The one you cite is not even the best of these. They are very interesting from an informational graphics perspective too, and many of them are examples of high-quality cartography. One example is Albert Halász's Atlas of New Central Europe https://x.com/attilabatorfy/status/1610594929289605120. In fact, the Carte Rouge was also published for the general public in Halász and Edvi-Illés Aladár's 1919 statistical album compiled for the Trianon negotiations (Magyarország gazdasági térképekben,1919, later rwpublished in 1920, 1921). One more thing: the Carte Rouge was not presented to the committee by Teleki, but by count Albert Apponyi.

There were THREE new Hungarian movies focusing on this map, here are their trailers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-HJh2XIkVQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA7y8GSrpRo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvtngtfnVBc

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