Cs.Sebestyén Kálmán - Szvircsek Ferenc: Salgótarjáni új almanach 1. (Salgótarján, 1997)
VI. TRADÍCIÓ ÉS KULTÚRA - 12. Rezümék
who was a descendant of this clan, too, and as a local land-owner, was named as Tarjáni. Later the king, Caroberto of the Anjou Dynasty confiscated the land of the Tarjáni family because of their alliance with Máté Csák, a lord who had fought against the king, and donated it to Thomas Szécsény, the Transylvanian vaivode in 1327. (He was a descendant of the Kacsics clan as well.) From a document of 1348 it is known that the settlement belonged to the castle of Salgó. There was a villege called Salgó below the castle even in 1439. Because of its geographical position Salgótarján was a checkpoint and customs post during the 15th century. It had been the site of fightings with the Hussites and even King Matthias Corvinus fought against them here - as a legend says. At the end of the 15th century castle Salgó with the village Tarján and the surrounding lands became the part of the estate of the Szapolyai family. During the 16th century this land had shanged its owners several times from Bebek to Balassa and later to Derencsényi family. In 1554 Kara Hamza, the Turkish governor (bey) of the old market town of Szécsény - after having taken the castle of Fülek - occupied Salgó castle with a trick and the village Tarján became a Turkish fief, too. In 1593 the castle was re-taken by the forces of generals Miklós Pálffy and Kristóf Tiffenbach but at the end of the fights it was totally ruined. The village remained an unknown, poor settlement near the ruins of the castle. Its serfs supported Ferenc IL Rákóczi' s revolt and fought against the Hapsburgs not only in 1703 but also during the revolution of 184849. But the most splendid victory of the local people happened in 1919 when together with the Hungarian army they stopped the Czech intervention forces of the French general, Hennecque, preverting them from extending the borders of Czechoslovakia till Hatvan and Miskolc. Thanks to this victory the most important indust-
