Lukács László (szerk.): Märkte und Warenaustausch im Pannonischen Raum - István Király Múzeum közelményei. A. sorozat 28. (Székesfehérvár, 1988)
László Novák: Trade and Migrational Connections between Transdanubia and the Area between the Rivers Danube and Tisza in the 17th - 19th Centuries
The crossing places for beef cattle and horse transport were the ferries of Vác, Ráckeve, Dunaföldvár and then the movement of animals went on through Transdanubia in the directions indicated. Animal traders of Cegléd, Nagykörös Kecskemét and the different towns of the territory east of the River Tisza, drove the beef cattle and horses to the West. Of course, the animals from' Transylvania and the territory east of the River Tisza together with those from the territory between the Rivers Danube and Tisza were not only transported abroad but also supplied the markets of Hungary everywhere. After the Turkish rule when the settlements could also be renewed and the destroyed towns were rebuilt and repopulated in the Plain, the conditions and possibilities for extensive animal-keeping changed. Extensiv animal-keeping declined, and as a result trade and commercial connections were also damaged, especially as regards export. In spite of this the towns in Western Hungary had good possibilities for marketing even in the 18th - 19th centuries. This is shown by the fact that butchers came to the Plain for animals from Transdanubia. Here is an example from Nagykörös: in May and Duly 1783, a certain Dános Gombos of Sopron country drove 180 oxen, and a merchant named Juspák of Győr drove 280 oxen through Nagykőrös. A merchant from Temesvár, Szentes drove hundreds of animals through Nagykőrös to Pest in 1738, Peter Szojka of Temesvár drove 170 beef cattle and a Greek of Szentes 2oo. To sum up, we can say that in terms of the connections between Transdanubia and the Great Hungarian Plain, migration, resulting from political relationsand agricultural factors of local and geographical character, ere significant elements in the 17th - 19th centuries. The South-Western Part of Transdanubia transported mostly wheat and wine to the territory between the Rivers Danube and Tisza in the 17th century, and at the same time important luxury products were transported from different towns of the North-Western part of Transdanubia (for example, Nagykőrös regularly bought pocket-knives with mother of pearl decorations as presents for the Turks). The Plain supplied the towns of Transdanubia and foreign towns with animals. 121
