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

Baranya Megyei Levéltár (Baranya County Archives)

BARANYA MEGYEI LEVÉLTÁR (BARANYA COUNTY ARCHIVES) 7621 PÉCS, Kossuth Lajos u. 11. Tel. 10-559 Director: Dr. László SZITA The archives of Baranya county suffered heavy losses in the course of centuries. Its medieval documents have been annihilated totally. The most of the county records preserved after the Turkish rule at Pecs were burnt, a minor part was taken by the local gentry; the latter did not turn up either, it was probably destroyed too. The period after the Turkish occupation is represented by records from the reorganization of the nobilitary county. However, the careless management caused a heavy deterioration to the county records. So it happened that in 1950 the recently established State Archives could take over the archives of Baranya county with considerable lacks only. Pecs city did not possess many records after the expulsion of the Turks either. During Rákóczi's freedom fight both the troops of the Kuruc and those of the Serbian military frontier region ravaged the city, destroying the city hall where the records were kept. They are continuous from the second decade of the eighteenth century only. Also the medieval documents of the borough Mohács have been destroyed after the Turkish occupation and its post-Turkish archival material was lost up to the mid-1750s. The continuous series begins with 1750 only. In the archives of the county we find but two documents prior to Mohács: one was issued in 1330 by the Pecs chapter, the other in 1495 by Wladislas II. The most valuable are the ancient records of the nobilitary assembly of Baranya county (1696-1786), those of the administration under Joseph II and the archives of the more recent nobilitary assembly (1790-1848). This material is completed by the mixed county papers, already calendared (1707-1848: "Calendared Lymbo") the fragmentary remains of the most various county organs. In the bourgeois period the records of the subprefect of the county, embracing the span between 1860 and 1944, are the most significant. For the political history of the county the records of the Lord Lieutenant are