Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

Győr-Sopron Megyei l.sz. Levéltár (Győr-Sopron County Archives (No.l.)

archival groups the directories of the 1919 Hungarian Republic of Councils (those of Győr and Moson counties and of Győr city) stand out in importance. The archival material of Moson county, abolished and united with Győr county in 1923, is a valuable source of the Western border areas Of historical Hungary (a considerable part of which belongs now to the Austrian province Burgenland). The territory of the county, established in the thirteenth century, was depopulated by the Turkish ravages in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; later the Hungarian population was supplied by mainly German and Croatian settlers. Their economic and social conditions, their way of life, the political life of the feudal county are illustrated by the journals of the general assemblies (from 1668) and their acts (from 1618), the county surveys of the national censuses (1700,-1713, 1720), the archival collection of the socage and land register records of the county (1705-1871) and the charters of nobility. The medieval history of Győr city is mirrored by a few remaining medieval charters. At the Turkish occupation of 1594 the archives of Győr city were annihilated with a few exceptions. The regular custody of records started in the early seventeenth century again. In 1743 Maria Theresia gave the settlement the status of a royal free city; as a consequence the official production of records has increased in a considerable measure, it was multiplied. The most precious series of the feudal records of the city council are the journals of Council sittings (from 1601), the records of the council (decrees of the King and the Chamber, testaments, judicial acts, legacies, aecounts), city fend registers from 1567. After 1743 the civic affairs of property came under the jurisdiction of the city magistrates. The books of contracts, puttings into possession, intabulations, neighbourly agreements, etc. are a regular quarry of information for researches'on the financial situation of the burgesses and the economic life of the city. The administrative records of the city council and the mayor supply manifold and valuable material for the history of the city in the bourgeois period. The city archives preserves also the collection of the fragmentary papers of the one-time tradeguilds. Being an important commercial, transport and cultural-educational centre, Győr was the seat of several organs of regional competence for a long time. A part of the records of these is preserved by the Archives. The documents of the economic development of north-western Transdanubia in the bourgeois