Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)
Budapest Főváros Levéltára (Budapest Municipal Archives)
specialized state organs of the capitalistic period) handed over their records generally up to the 1960s for archival custody. Of them the relatively complete series of council meeting journals are the most valuable. The volume of council records totals 11 474 running metres, making 10,62 per cent, of the whole material. The archives of the councils keep the duplicates of the state registers from 1895. The changes in the originals are yearly entered in the latter. The volume of the duplicates is 2 748 running metres, 2,43 per cent, of the whole material. The records of the regional archives have been described in the following centrally edited finding aids: A területi levéltárak fondjegyzékei (Lists of the archival groups of the regional archives.) Budapest 1962-1975. 1. Principles of the edition. - 2. to 23. Lists of archival groups of the single archives. Kéziratos térképek a területi állami levéltárakban (Manuscript maps in the regional state archives.) Budapest 1965-1972. 1. to 21. A területi állami levéltárakban őrzött feudáliskori összeírások jegyzéke (List of feudal conscriptions preserved in the regional state archives). 1. National conscriptions, state tax assessments. Budapest 1965. — 2. Indices. Budapest 1965. — 3. City conscriptions. Budapest 1969. Dr. Péter BALÁZS BUDAPEST FŐVÁROS LEVÉLTÁRA (BUDAPEST MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES) 1350 BUDAPEST, Városház u. 9-11. (Pf. 7. Tel. 172-033 (secretariat) and 174-267 (director) Director: Dr. Ágnes SÁG VÁRI candidate of historical sciences Budapest Municipal Archives has come to being by the unification of Buda, Pest and Óbuda in 1873, but its origins are to be found two centuries earlier, at the liberation of these cities from the Turkish domination in 1686. The archives of Buda and Pest, having regained their rank of royal free cities soon after the liberation, are conserved from this date, that of the borough Óbuda from 1720; the earlier records of all the three settlements have been
