Szita László: Somogy megyei nemzetiségek településtörténete a XVIII-XIX. században - Somogyi Almanach 52. (Kaposvár, 1993)

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RESUME The Settlement, history of the minorities of Somogy comitat in the li-igth centuries This study scrutinizes the settlement of Croatians, Slovaks and Germans in Somogy comitat from the cud of the Turkish occupation till the middle of the 19th century. This topic is of particular importance because the history of the minorities in this region has not been dealt with by either a comprehensive work or detail studies. The population of Somogy comitat was decisively Hungarian, but in the j.8th century different non-Hungarian ethnic groups got into one third of the settlements, and according to our research that leads up to the middle of the 19th century the Croatian, Bosnian, Catholic Serbian (ßunyevac), Sokac, Vend, Slovak and German population developed both in number and economically and culturally. They established various ties with the Hungarians and they had a mutual influence on each other. The history of Somogy comitat is the history of these Slav and German populations as well. The different minorities in Somogy comitat did not form large blocks which were in direct contact with one another. The ethnic settlements at various distances from one another wedged into the Hungarian block were in both economic and cultural contact. The intercthnic ties of the Southern Slav ethnic groups can be shown with the regions of Slavonia, Muraköz and Croatia, where they had come from. Part of the Germans of Somogy directly arrived from 1 lessen. Middle Bavaria and the Swabian-Frank region. Most of them, however, as secondary settlers, mainly immigrated from the German villages of Tolna comitat. Some of them moved from Baranya and Veszprém to their new homeland Somogy. In this period of our study, migration is a continuous phenomenon, in the course of which the population had gone through several changes, but there arc a considerable number of settlements where the ethnic population can be considered as being continuous. The population of the Slovak settlements immigrated from Felvidék (the present Republic of Slovakia), the Vends mainly from Muraköz. In the period of our study the ethnics constitute the minority in the comitat, and since the Slovaks are the smallest in number, their Magyarization takes place at the fastest rate due to the pressure they are exposed to. The Southern Slav ethnic groups in Southern and South-Western Somogy became stronger and developed economically as well. In the micro regions of Eastern Somogy bordering on Tolna comitat and in the Zselic region the German settlements showed a significant economic development, and with the help of their particular inner orders of value and the economic and cultural tics they had established with one another, they kept growing in the 19th century too.