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. 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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. 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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