The politician Mihály Táncsics wanted the 1848 parliament to debate the future of the administrative divisions of Hungary. Characteristically, he wanted to preserve, in the form of a county name, that of Prince Árpád, who led the conquering Hungarians into the Carpathians in the ninth century. He recalls in his memoirs: “I made a map about this time, in a thousand copies, and had the lithographers Grimm print it. In this map I divided Hungary (and Transylvania) up into counties approximately equal in size but without bothering with other divisions, such as districts etc. But by the time it came out, these countries were in upheaval. Neither the time nor the circumstances proved favourable to this particular effort of mine.”