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Journal of Eurasian Studies JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES _____________________________________________________________________________________ Journal of the Gábor Bálint de Szentkatolna Society Founded: 2009. Internet: www.federatio.org/joes.html _____________________________________________________________________________________ Volume I., Issue 2. / April — June 2009 ____________________ ISSN 1877‐4199 April‐June 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 2. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Publisher Foundation ʹStichting MIKES INTERNATIONALʹ, established in The Hague, Holland. Account: Postbank rek.nr. 7528240 Registered: Stichtingenregister: S 41158447 Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken Den Haag Distribution The periodical can be downloaded from the following Internet‐address: http://www.federatio.org/joes.html If you wish to subscribe to the email mailing list, you can do it by sending an email to the following address: mikes_int‐[email protected] The publisher has no financial sources. It is supported by many in the form of voluntary work and gifts. We kindly appreciate your gifts. Address The Editors and the Publisher can be contacted at the following addresses: Email: [email protected] Postal address: P.O. Box 10249, 2501 HE, Den Haag, Holland Individual authors are responsible for facts included and views expressed in their articles. _____________________________________ ISSN 1877‐4199 © Mikes International, 2001‐2009, All Rights Reserved _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2009 2 April‐June 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 2. _____________________________________________________________________________________ EDITORIAL BOARD Editor‐in‐Chief FARKAS, Flórián The Hague, Holland Deputy Editor‐in‐Chief OBRUSÁNSZKY, Borbála Budapest, Hungary Editors ALIMBAY, Nursan Almaty, Kazakhstan ARADI, Éva Budapest, Hungary BÉRCZI, Szaniszló Budapest, Hungary BÍRÓ, András Budapest, Hungary CSORNAI, Katalin Budapest, Hungary ERDÉLYI, István Göd, Hungary HORVÁTH, Izabella Hangzhou, China KARATAY, Osman İzmir, Turkey MARÁCZ, László Amsterdam, Holland MARCANTONIO, Angela Rome, Italy SECHENBAATAR Hohhot, China UCHIRALTU Hohhot, China ZOMBORI, Andor Nagoya, Japan _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2009 3 April‐June 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 2. _____________________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS Dear Reader,______________________________________________________________________ 6 Our Authors ______________________________________________________________________ 7 CHRONICLE _________________________________________________ 10 BÉRCZI, Szaniszló Datahorizon from Eurasia in the 1st Millennium B.C. _______________________________ 11 OBRUSÁNSZKY, Borbála Statue to Gábor Bálint de Szentkatolna ___________________________________________ 21 HISTORY ____________________________________________________ 23 OBRUSÁNSZKY, Borbála Late Huns in Caucasus __________________________________________________________ 24 ZOMBORI, Andor Heavenly White Castle of Japan __________________________________________________ 37 LINGUISTICS ________________________________________________ 40 BÉRCZI, Szaniszló Gábor Czakó: Initiation into the Hungarian Cast of Mind ___________________________ 41 FERENCZI, Enikő New Interpretation of the Ethnic Name “Scythian” and Its Significance to the Etymology of the “Basque” _______________________________________________ 43 MARCANTONIO, Angela ´Belső‐ázsiai´ nyelv‐e a magyar? __________________________________________________ 68 IS HUNGARIAN AN ´INNER‐ASIAN´ LANGUAGE? _______________________________________________ 95 ANCIENT WRITING SYSTEM RESEARCH_______________________ 97 MELLÁR, Mihály Linear A Deciphered ____________________________________________________________ 98 GEOSTRATEGY _____________________________________________ 120 DEMETER M., Attila — TONK, Márton The System of Norms of Minority Protection in the European Union ________________ 121 _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2009 4 April‐June 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 2. _____________________________________________________________________________________ DERRICK, Matthew The Implications of Climate Change for Russian Geopolitics in the Arctic ___________ 130 MAHAPATRA, Debidatta Aurobinda India’s Central Asian Connections_______________________________________________ 137 LITERATURE _______________________________________________ 147 FARKAS, Flórián Mirza — a Persian Chronicler on the Polders _____________________________________ 148 _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2009 5 April‐June 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 2. _____________________________________________________________________________________ DEAR READER, It is a great pleasure for the members of the editorial board of our journal that so many readers reacted enthusiastically to the launch of the JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES. In the meantime some scholars even submitted papers that you can read in this issue. It is our aim to make this journal a vehicle for exchanging ideas, information, and views about the topics covered by it. Therefore we would like to draw the attention of our readers to the following possibilities: We welcome comments, reviews, and criticisms on papers published in this journal or in other scholarly publications, so long as they are constructive and are not meant to hurt or insult. We would like to encourage everybody to submit to the Editorial Board ([email protected]) papers in the fields covered by the Journal. The papers will be assessed solely on their academic merits, and these are the few prerequisites the authors and their papers should adhere to: Can be written in any language. However, if written in a language other than English, please provide an English summary of at least A4 length. A brief (max. 10 sentences long) professional CV in English. Beginning with the next issue we intend to launch a new column entitled News Brief. The news brief section features the latest news from the past three months prior to publication of each Journal of Eurasian Studies issue in the areas of anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, folklore, genetics, and linguistics with a special focus on Asia and the interaction between various European and Asian peoples. News pieces outside the three‐month period or our scope of focus may also be included if they are found to be of great value and relevance by our editorial board. Please submit a short summary of those newsbytes (max. 100 words) in English to the following email‐address: [email protected], indicating the source as well (also URL if applicable). The column will be edited by one of our editors, Andor Zombori. If the original news is only available in hardcopy, please send us a copy to the following address: Journal of Eurasian Studies, P.O. Box 10249, 2501 HE, Den Haag, Holland. The names of the contributors will be published in the journal unless they ask otherwise. If you wish to subscribe to the electronic mailing list, you can do it by sending an email to the following address: mikes_int‐[email protected] Flórián Farkas Editor‐in‐Chief The Hague, June 15, 2009 _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2009 6 April‐June 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 2. _____________________________________________________________________________________ OUR AUTHORS BÉRCZI, Szaniszló Physicist‐astronomer who made a new synthesis of evolution of matter according to the material hierarchy versus great structure building periods. This model is a part of his Lecture Note Series Book on the Eötvös University. He also organized a research group on evolution of matter in the Geonomy Scientific Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Scince (with Béla Lukács). He wrote the first book in Hungary about planetary science From Crystals to Planetary Bodies (also he was the first candidate of earth sciences in topics planetology). He built with colleagues on the Eötvös university the Hungarian University Surveyor (Hunveyor) experimental space probe model for teachers training proposes and development of new constructions in measuring technologies. DEMETER M., Attila Senior lecturer at the Babeş‐Bolyai University in Kolozsvár/Cluj/Clausenburg, focusing on political philosophy. He commenced his academic studies at the Polytechnic Faculty (Mechanics) in Kolozsvár/Cluj/Clausenburg, which was then followed with a BA then MA studies at the Babeş‐Bolyai University in Philosophy (1992‐1997). Mr. Demeter earned his Ph.D. degree from the same university in philosophy in 2001. He is chairman of the Pro Philosophia Foundation, founder and member of the editorial board of the philosophy periodical Kellék. Author of several books and articles. DERRICK, Matthew PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Oregon (USA). He also holds two master’s degrees, the first in Russian Area Studies and the second in Geography, from the University of Oregon. Focused mainly on the Russian Federation, and especially its non‐Russian regions, his scholarly interests
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