Pesty Frigyes: Heves vármegye helynévtára - A Heves Megyei Levéltár forráskiadványai 11. (Eger, 2005)

Summary Frigyes Pesty: Gazetteer of Heves County The name of Frigyes Pesty (born: 3 March 1823 in Temesvár, died: 23 November 1889) and his activity is closely interwoven with historical geography, particulary with the compilation of geographic place names. It was during his activity in Temesvár that he started the comprehensive research work to which he owes his reputation. In his letter dated on 2 February 1863 he proposed his plan concerning the compilation of the geographic names of Hungary to the Magyar Királyi Helytartótanács (lat. consilium regium locumtenentiale Hungaricum). In order to do that, he printed out the necessary questionnaires, classified and evaluated the enourmous quantity of incoming data, following that he asked the counties to gather data again and prepare complements. The preparation of Pesty's gazetteer was carried out between 1864-1866, so it took him two years to finish this work. This source-publication was also based on the material of Frigyes Pesty found in the manuscript collection of the National Széchényi Library, along with the manuscripts of the supplementary data gatherings that were requested by Frigyes Pesty after analysing the gazetteers of the first round, that were - for some unknown reason - held back in Heves County and were not forwarded to the head of the compilation work Frigyes Pesty himself. The release of Frigyes Pesty's Gazetteer of Heves County was carried out as follows. At the time of the compilation of the geographic place names, Heves and Külső-Szolnok Counties had belonged to the same administrative region (from 1569 to the county-planning in 1876). In 1876 Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County was created out of two regions (Jászság, Nagykunság) that had previously belonged to Külső-Szolnok County. As the geographic names of the Jászság region and the one-time Külső-Szolnok Counties, as well as the geographic names of Borsod County based on Pesty's Gazetteer had already been published in two volumes, this publication contains the written place-name material of the so-called Historical Heves County that existed between 1876— 1945. The first part of this source publication contains the geographic place name material of Heves County found in the manuscript collection of the National Széchényi Library. Following that the reader will find the geographic place names of Felsőtárkány. This township had belonged to Borsod County until it became part of Heves County in 1884. The final part contains the descriptions of Frigyes Pesty's supplementary data gatherings that are found in the Heves County Archives. The descriptions of the settlements deriving from manuscripts are presented in a transcript that conforms to the present-day Hungarian 351