Il Turan nell’Ungheria dualista

Abstract

This article aims to approach the topic of Turanism in Hungary during the Dualism. In the context of the rise of pan-nationanlisms, in an ethnocultural perspective, Hungarian culture/science found the myth of Turan as a very attractive orientation to be part of an intercontinental family of language and of anthropology. Starting with the linguistical and philological studies, the ethno-anthropological thesis of the Turanian ethno-genesis in common with Ugric groups but also Turko-Altaic ones, grew up in the Dualist Hungary, as the most nationalist and conservative approach. Literature and poetry described the need to restore the ancient ethnicity looking to East and to the brotherhood with Uralo-Altaic peoples. WW1 was the context when Austria-Hungary gave to the Hungarian Turanism the mission to build an alliance with Turks and Turanic countries from Central Asia.