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Budapest

The altar of the nation: the millennium monument in budapest

(This is a chapter of my book: András Gerő: Imagined history. Chapters from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Hungarian Symbolic Politics. Boulder, Colorado – Columbia University Press, New York – Center for Hungarian Studies and Publication Inc. Wayne, New Jersey 2006.)

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The Symbolic Square

It is evident that there is a Kossuth Square, because there is a Parliament.  The Parliament not only created the square but, by its dimensions and mass, gave it a structure.

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