Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 3. (Budapest, 2008)

Abstracts

the basis of his volume, of course with using other data as well, it is possible to draw conclusions about the settlement structure of the South Great Plain of the era, the size of the settlements and the ethnics of the inhabitants. Studying on the basis of the new data the settlement system of the country-side - which had been so far quite avoided by research - provides an opportunity for exploring many so far unknown facts and relationships. ÉVA KUJBUSNÉ MECSEI The system of relations in Nyíregyháza from its resettlement (1753-1848) The relationship system of Nyíregyháza was determined for a century by the resettlement of 1753 and the migration that followed it. Since the new inhabitants originating from Felvidék (Upper Hungary) were Lutherans speaking the old Czech language, they formed for a long time a closed island in the middle of the Szabolcs county where Catholic-Protestant Hungarian tenants were living. They met with their immediate environment and the inhabitants of the wider region mainly at the local and neighbourhood national fairs. They preferred to maintain a closer relation with their former places of residence, with the towns of the Felvidék: they married from there, the priest, teachers, servants, helpers came from there, the youngsters of Nyíregyháza studied mostly in the schools of Eperjes, Késmárk, but the leaders, the commissionaires of the council also turned this way, when they asked a loan for paying the manumission compensation or when they were looking for a sample for preparing the rules order of the changed town. The Chief Judge and the Fiscal Officer did even get to Buda and Vienna a couple of times, but due to the distance, the costs, the lack of appropriate knowledge and acquaintances they rather commissioned agents for administering the legal matters of the town, for obtaining the desired privileges.