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

Komárom Megyei Levéltár (Komárom County Archives)

Komárom county and the royal free city stayed in the Tchecoslovak Republic. In 1938 the two counties were separated, then after World War II, between 1945 and 1950 the two parts of counties were united again with the name Komárom-Esztergom county. In 1950, at the establishment of the council system the ancient archives of Esztergom county and Esztergom royal free city were united as Komárom County Archives. The repository was called Esztergom State Archives for a long time, it wears its present name from 1 January 1968. Contrary to its name, it does not preserve the archives of the historical Komárom county, this is kept in Tchecoslovakia in the Nitra átátny Archiv. An important part of our repository is the archives of the Esztergom Cathedral Chapter as a place of authenticity, taken to state archival custody by the decree-law No. 29 of 1950. The collecting interest and competence of the Komárom County Archives cover the present Komárom county, having five cities and two districts. The immediate supervision of the Komárom County Archives belongs to the Cultural Section of the Executive Committee of Komárom County Council at Tatabánya. (Since 1950 the county seat is Tatabánya.) 804 records before Mohács are in archival custody. The oldest piece is in the archives of the Esztergom Cathedral Chapter as a place of authenticity. Several hundreds of pre-Mohács charters are preserved in the archives of the Palásthy family, among them several from the thirteenth century. The Archives took over three fourteenth century pieces from the Bálint Balassa Museum at Esztergom. The stack-rooms hold almost one thousand archival groups, totalling 3300 running metres. Among the archival groups of Esztergom county a great source value may be attributed to the 130 running metres of the nobilitary assembly of Esztergom county prior to 1848. The county administration records of the second half of the nineteenth century are preserved relatively complete. The material of Komárom-Esztergom county between 1923 and 1938 is rather small, strongly selected, with losses in its more valuable parts. The records of the royal free city Esztergom up to 1848 total cca 100 running metres. They begin in 1700; although the city was liberated from the Turks in 1683 after the unsuccessful siege of Vienna, its early records have been annihilated in the years of Rákóczi 's fight for freedom (1705-1707). The material is arranged and easy to research with its coeval finding aids, but