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© 2020, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847110606 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737010603 ing ones. Those who occupied the higher, and consequently more political, positions, figured inthe localmulti-ethnic societybefore1918, aswell.34 Itis,thus,notsurprisingthatwhiletheAcademyofLawandtheCalvinistHigh School challenged the authorities over their subsequent restrictive decisions, they received support from the county administration,which tried toplay the role of mediator between Bucharest and the Hungarian institutions. Gergely Györgyhimself arguedthat thecountyadministrationwaswilling tohelp them becausemostof thosewhooccupiedpositionsafter1918weregraduatesof the AcademyofLaw.35 Evenafter the closure of the two institutions,Maramures‚ displayed similar characteristics as before 1918. The prefects (the peers of theHungarian Lord Lieutenants) were selected during the long tenures of liberal governments (1922–1926, 1927–1928, 1933–1937) from the local Romanian families, quite oftenfromtheMihalis.Thepressreportednot infrequentlyon“interludes”that put Hungarian cultural practices on public display – by Romanians.36 Mar- amures‚ Romanians seemed to bemore tolerant towardsHungarians than the nationalizingeffortsofthestatewouldhavepresupposed.37Andfinally,whenthe countywas reannexed toHungary in 1940 its newLord Lieutenantwas aRo- manian,FlaviusJurca,whoservedasapublicofficialbefore1918(heevenhada publicizedduel), continuedhis career uninterrupted after theRomanian take- over, andwhowasgenerallyconsideredtobeoneof themembersof theMihali clan.38 Transylvanian regionalism Given the scope of its activities and goals it is hardly surprising that Transyl- vanianregionalismrepresentedaverydifferentpatternofcenter-periphery re- lations.While theMaramures‚noble familieswerecontentwithpreserving their dominanceinasmallanddistantregion,andhappytoreapsomeofthefruitsof modernization, those, who around 1910 started to organize a newmovement thatraisedtheflagofTransylvanianinterests, intendedtofendoff twoperceived 34 One example of such amphibious behavior was D#nGyörgy/Gheorghe Dan. He held the positionof the secretaryof theLordLieutenant before 1918 andbecameviceprefect after 1920.Magyarorsz#g tiszti c&m- 8s n8vt#ra az 1917. 8vre, Budapest 1917; Calendarul admi- nistrativpe1925,Cluj 1925,p. 296. 35 ANSJMMLiceul reformatdosar854, f. 28–29;dosar868, f. 68. 36 M#ramarosbanmagyarulmulatnak. A rom#n alisp#nt azzal v#dolj#k, hogy boros fejjel a magyarhimnuszt8nekelte, in:PestiNaplj (20.10.1935), 240.p. 9. 37 M#ramarosmeg8rto˝ szelleme, in:M#ramaros49 (20.06.1929),p. 3. 38 AblonczyBal#zs,TelekiP#l nemzetro˝l8s t#rsadalomrjl –visszacsatol#sokelo˝tt8sut#n, in: FedinecCsilla (ed.),Anemzeta t#rsadalomban,Budapest2004,p. 151–172,164. GáborEgry344