Cs.Sebestyén Kálmán - Szvircsek Ferenc: Salgótarjáni új almanach 1. (Salgótarján, 1997)

VI. TRADÍCIÓ ÉS KULTÚRA - 12. Rezümék

SUMMARY SALGÓTARJÁN Lots of interesting facts have been written about the most valuable mineral resource of Salgótarján during the last decade but not many data have been published and known about the history of the settlement until the 20th century. However, it is well-known that finding lignite as a source of energy everywhere changed the picture of the landscape and its villages during the decades. These changes occured in Salgótarján, too: after having found lignite it made effect on the village and its surrounding area. In the Salgotarjánian basin, below three peaks of Karancs hills (as they are called „Palóc Olympus" from the ,,palóc" people living here) an industrial and mining centre has been developed since the end of the 19th century. The village itself had started to be built in a long, ,,Y" shaped, central valley winding northwards among the hills, and at the meeting point of two brooks called Salgó and Tarján. Until now the town has even occupied the side-valleys. The predecessor of the town, the village called „Tarján" was founded here in the 10th century as a part of the northern defence line of the frontier in order to check the routes and collect information about the forthcoming attacks. The name of the village is originated from the name of Tarján tribe that was one of the tribes of early Magyars (Hungarians) that conquerred the Carpathian basin. The first part of the name of today's town, Salgó, was once a village that laid at the southern foot of the castle. The descendants of free soldiers and servants of the castle had been living as serfs and cottars cultivating their mountain tenures for centuries. The name Tarján first occured in charters after the Mongol-Tartar Invasion (1246). To our present knowledge, the earliest owner was the socalled Kacsics clan. From the 13th-century-charters we can learn about a nobleman called Illés