Nyakas Miklós: Hajdú vármegye létrejötte / Hajdúsági Közlemények 11. (Hajdúböszörmény, 1983)
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THE FOUNDATION OF HAJDU COUNTY Hajdú County was founded in 1876, from the towns the one-time Hajdú-Area and some villages of Bihar and Hajdú counties. The founding of the new county came with the arrangement of county boarders, taking place all over the country at that time. This was necessary because the system of public administration in Hungary could no longer live up to the requirements of the modern, capitalist age. Though the emperor's absolutistic government, which had suppressed the Fight for Independence of Hungary, was itself experimenting with capitalist reforms, these were deeply anti. Hungarian in character, and, therefore, reactionary. Thus they were unanimously rejected by the contemporaries. The system of public administration in feudal Hungary showed a very mixed picture: besides the feudal counties there existed free royal towns, and districts, with their own systems of jurisdiction. Such a free unit was the secondary administrational district of the six Heyduck towns, bearing the name „the Heyduck Area", whose internal system of jurisdiction was to be brought in concord with the requirements of the post- Ausgleich (1867-) Hungarian state. These internal reforms shattered the very foundations of the Heyduck Area. Still more dangerous than that was the fact that the administrational map of the entire country was to be drawn anew: this meant a serious danger for the Heyduck Area which consisted of six towns and, at the same time, six independent territories. The plan of territorial arrangements, concerning the whole country, was prepared by count Szapáry Gyula, then Minister of Internal Affairs; his conceptions affected certain parties and political circles in such a manner as was unacceptible for his contemporaries. As regards the plan proper, it annexed one part of the Heyduck Area to Szabolcs County, and the rest to another county-to-be, Kun County. The towns of the Heyduck Area refused the proposan unanimously, and prepared a counter-proposal whose chief aim was to preserve the Heyduck (Haidou) Area and enlarge it, with Hajdúböszörmény as its centre of administration. But this latter proposal was essentially against the interests of Debrecen, then free royal town, and also the biggest settlement of this area, and the leaders of the town could clearly see the plan's political consequences. THEIR conception of 1 1
