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

(Central Archives) - Magyar Országos Levéltár (Hungarian National Archives)

General archives are archivai institutions which accept and preserve all kinds of archival materials with the exception of those which belong to specialised archives. CENTRAL ARCHIVES MAGYAR ORSZÁGOS LEVÉLTÁR (HUNGARIAN NATIONAL ARCHIVES) 1250 BUDAPEST I. Bécsikapu tér 2-4. Pf. 3. Tel. 160-199,161-501 Its Director is Dr. Győző EMBER, titular university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kossuth-prize winner. The Hungarian National Archives is one of the general central or national state archives of the Hungarian People's Republic: if collects, preserves and makes readily accessible the archival material of organizations and persons of national authority and significance prior to 1945 for all those who need information from this material. Since 1970 when the second general central state archives of the country, the New Hungarian Central Archives was established, the Hungarian National Archives has become a closed repository no longer regularly enriched by the archival material. The Archives have a past of more than 200 years. The Hungarian royal archives — archives not only of the crown but also of the state — which were in existence before the battle of Mohács (1526), a fatal date in Hungarian history, were annihilated during the Turkish conquest (1541-1686) under unknown circumstances. The Vienna archives of the Austrian Hapsburgs, who ascended the Hungarian throne in 1526, were not