Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

II Upland Market Town

II Upland Market Town Upland is the historical name for the territory of the northern mountain range. The market towns, which developed in the region between the rivers Ipoly and Bodrog, were the characteristic settlements of the area. Their privileged position (rights to hold markets, electing magistrates, freedom to travel and inherit) differentiated them from the serfs of the neighbouring villages. Market towns were mediating culture between the rural peasants and nobles and the civilians of the free royal towns. The cultural significance of the region is indicated by the fact that Vizsoly was the birthplace of the preacher Gáspár Károlyi who first translated the Bible into Hungarian. Ferenc Kazincy a prominent member of the Hungarian neologist movement also lived in Zemplén County. The Upland was also populated by large numbers of Slovakian, Polish, Ruthenian, German, Greek and Jewish inhabitants. The Roman Catholic majority lived together with Protestant and Lutheran communities in some areas. The population was not high - maximum 5000 persons more than