Kinces, Diana: Tăşnad. Chid cultural. Istoric (Satu Mare, 2015)
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of the fortification we have almost no data. The last mention of the „castle" from Tăşnad dates from 1563, when it was in possession of Balassa Menyhért. Tăşnad and the domain made around it remains one of the Principality of Transylvania immediately after its formation, at half of the sixteenth century. During the reign of Gabriel Bethlen, the prince donated the domain to his brother, Ştefan Bethlen, becoming this way into the possession of his wife Mária Szechy. According to the land records from 1569, Tăşnad have certain privileges and obligations of feudal fair. Its inhabitants were vassals and indebted to benefits. Tăşnad fair, at the time, was one of the largest in north western Transylvania, having recorded 319 names, without distinction. Also as a donation of the prince of Transylvania, Tăşnad came into Gheorghe Rákóczi's possession in 1648. He had built in locality a curia, a stone building, still visible in 1742. According to the historian Petri Mór it seems that in 1658Tatars and Turks burned the town of Tăşnad, which remained deserted, being inhabited after the disaster by only 3 4 families. A document from the XVIII century, published by fetri Mór shows the size of the domain of Tăşnad during the period of Báthory. It comprised a total of 20 villages, located in the western part of the counties Solnocu de Mijloc and Bihor: Blaja, Cehal, Cehăluţ, Valea Morii, Cig, Sărăuad, Căuaş, Ghenci, Satu Mic, Ţeghea, Săcăşeni, Camăr, Almaşu Mare, Şumal, Boianu Mare, Doh,Giungi, Mălădia and Bobota. Regarding thedaily life of the inhabitants, the first complete data we receive only from the pre-modern period. According to its status as a regional center, Tăşnad had a large number of people. In 1742, there lived 201 families, of which 35 noble families. In 1779 the domain of Tăşnad came into the count Károlyi Antal possession. Soon, the fair becoming one of the centers of colonization of Swabian arrived here from the neighboring villages. The Swabian and then the Jewish families established in the locality stimulated the economic life of Tăşnad, especially in the field of crafts and trade. The fair became an important center of craft guilds already benefiting from a tradition in the area. Many of the most important guilds in Tăşnad: those of potters, tanners, shoemakers receive significant privileges in 1837. The census from 1850 recorded at Tăşnad a population of 3077 inhabitants ethnically distributed in 321 Romanian, 2326 Hungarian, 285 Jewish and 45 Roma and from confessional point of view there were 338 Greek Catholics, 1017 Romano Catholics, 1340 Calvinists, 2 Evangelicals and 285 Jewish. In 1857 Tăşnad had 627 houses with a total of 3014 inhabitants, of which 1328 were Calvinists, 1132 Romano Catholics, 285 Jewish, 257 Greek Catholics and 2 Orthodox. In locality there were 4 priests, 40 officemen, 4 lawyers, 11 responsible for the health situation, 153 landowners and 269 industrialists. The census from 1900 noted at Tăşnad 4274 inhabitants that had lived in 731 houses made most of adobe, clay and wood and very few from stone or brick, covered with straw or reed, shingle and very few with tile. An important event in the history of the town was the TS.^' V ,;V í^SIii
