Fatuska János – Fülöp Éva Mária – ifj. Gyuszi László (szerk.): Annales Tataienses II. A mezőváros, mint uradalmi központ. Mecénás Közalapítvány. Tata, 2001.

Foreword Three institutes in Tata named Kuny Domokos Museum, Museum of German Nationality, Móricz Zsigmond Library, which are searching for the local history and collecting data, have taken initiative in a new research plan to explore the history of the town and its surroundings and to publish the scientific achievements. The staff members of the above mentioned public collections are planning that the scientific conference, which is yearly organised in Kuny Domokos Museum, and the volume of studies including the delivered lectures might complete the partly outdated monograph about the history of the town with the latest scientific achievements. The originators hope the volumes that will be published without any restrictions on chronology might give a breeding ground to the new monograph of the town, and the complete series might provide opportunity for the compilation of the complex monograph about our local history. The first volume of the series titled Annales Tataienses paid tribute to the memory of the 400th anniversary of the succesful reconquer of Tata Castle by Count Miklós Pállfy in 1597 and was published with the title: Tata in the Fifteen Years' War. The second volume covered the initial lecture comprehensively delivered on the scientific conference named Market-Towns as Domain-Centers. The other volumes that followed were about some episodes from the history of the market-town Tata and Tóváros as the centre of the Eszterházy-Domain of Tata and Gesztes. In what followed the invited speakers analysed the history of the market-towns partly owned by worldly landowners or belonged to the treasury and which were situated in Transdanubia or in the Bihar region. The lectures were also about the markettowns situated on the estate of the episcopates, which belonged to the ecclesiastical lands of fixed or limited trade. The editors 9