A Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Levéltár évkönyve 27. 2000 (Debrecen, 2000)

Tanulmányok - Ölveti Gábor: Thököly hadakozása Debrecennel

tozott. Önmagában ez az intézkedés is előrevetítette Debrecen és Thö­köly kapcsolatának a minőségi átalakulását, amely azonban már egy következő tanulmány témája lesz. A Debreczeni Diáriumot lapozgatva további megerősítést nyert a már idézett előző tanulmányok végső következtetése, mely szerint Debrecen a hadsereg ellátásával erején felül járult hozzá a Habsburg- ellenes kuruc felkelés sikereihez. Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Levéltár Évkönyve XXVII ______________________________53 Thököly’s Warfare with Debrecen /1680-1683/ Gábor Ölveti While examining how the relationship between Count Imre Thököly and the town of Debrecen underwent certain changes, the author of the study also intends to call the attention of those interested in the given historical period to Debreczeni Diárium (the Debrecen Diary) kept in Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Levéltár (the Hajdú-Bihar County Archives) and to its richness of detail. The so-called “debreceni lárma” (approximately “the Debrecen Brawl”), i.e., the armed obstruction of Thököly’s moving into the town in January 1680, was the result of a longer process of events. During this process, the initially sympathetic relationship between the Kuruc forces (adj. and noun, pronounced koo-roots, the name of Thököly’s and Rákóczi’s insurrectionist armies and the nationalist soldiers in it around the turn of the 17th century) and the town gradu­ally grew colder and colder. The basic reason for the formation of animosity was the fact that the warring German and Hungarian troops had been looting the settlements for a while, and Debrecen was rather deienceless to withstand that. Following the “debreceni lárma,” Thököly and his soldiers tried to grab every opportunity to take vengeance on the town for the unprecedented ignominy they had had to suffer. This meant that the kuruc troops continued to pillage the area around Debrecen regularly up until September 1681. It was only because of the proximity of the Turkish and Transylvanian forces after the start of the military operations, and then in 1682, due to the long way to the kuruc headquarters in the area called Felvidék (present-day Slovakia), that the number of atrocities committed by them decreased.

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