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

Abstracts

Obviously it is connected to this fact that they settled on Royal lands, and their leaders - the so-called captains - obtained the small Royal benefits for performing military tasks. From certain signs (number of population, settlement structure, appearance of the mendicant order, etc.) it is possible to conclude that in the late Middle Ages a part of the settlements of Jazygia (B erény, Agó, Árokszállás, Apáti, Kisér, possibly Fényszaru) started on the way of development to become market towns. At the same time it can be seen that these settlements did not have town privileges - in spite of the fact that not only historic research, but also the contemporary people considered the privileges to be the metrics of urban development. In spite of the fact that the individual settlements did not get privileges, the community of the Jassic people got such privileges that are classified as characteristically town privileges: In year 1407 they got general customs exemption and the right to litigation in front of their own judges, and in 1512 the right to freely choose their parish priest (they did already have this right previously as well). The research classifies the payment of the taxes in one amount also a certain kind of privilege, the Jassic people paid taxes this way. Later on they obtained the re-enforcement of the individual privileges from the kings regularly. This means from our aspect, that as regards the privileges within Jazygia not the individual settlements functioned as towns, but the community of the Jassic people as a whole, independently of the fact whether the settlement where they lived exhibited any other sign of urban development.