Baranya. Történelmi közlemények 9-10. évfolyam (1996-1997)

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Tamás SÜLE: "What is Bécs for Hungarians, that is Pécs for Germans" A reform Age feuilleton on Pécs and Baranya The sixth Meeting of Medical doctors and Naturalists was held in Pécs in 1845. Beyond its professional significance it was an important social event, as it is shown on the feuilletons of Imre Vahot, published in „Pesti Divatlap". The sources, apart from their value for cultural history contains descriptions of Pécs, Mohács, Siklós and Harkány in the middle of the last century. Serving his audience Vahot describes the feasts and dresses in detail, that other sources usually lack. The author publishes some excerpts of these articles, with a special emphasis on the meeting as a social event, Mihály ERNYES: From attendant to policemen, from pandour to gendarme The author, who published four books on the topic, deals with the organisation of the gendarme. The public security had a dual system, both city police and the gendarmerie worked in the same territory. There were many stages in the process of development of the police through different formations (attendants, guardsmen). The pandours of the counties were replaced by the gendarmerie, organised as a military unit. The history of the Hungarian gendarmerie can be divided into two pars. In the first, between 1849 and 1867 the organisation was operated by the imperial administration. The second (1881-1945) ends with the disintegration of it. The imperial gendarmerie was not accepted by the inhabitants, because of their foreign system, and was dissolved after 1867 (excluding Transsylvania and Croatia). The organisation of the gendarmerie had changed many times, but the basis of it remained a group of 5-8 people. In the early years there were not too many gendarme (average 53 for one km2 during 1880's), but the staff became bigger. The author also describes the organisation of the Baranya county gendarmerie. Zoltán GAL: The transformation of the Transdanubian Banking System on the turn of the century. (The role of bankers in the society of Pécs.) The author outlines an important period of the banking system of Pécs, with a new perspective of city history and regional research, providing a link between the history of the country and a particular settlement. The banking sector strenghtens urbanisation everywhere through infrastructural investments. During the first years of the 20th century some regional banking centres emerged in Hungary. The author outlines the hierarchy of these, and concludes, that in Transdanubia these investments were less focused than in