Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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VÁC IN THE OTTOMAN ERA 101 The Castle of Fülek in the 16th century THE SECOND OTTOMAN OCCUPATION In the course of the war theTurks lost the castles in Nógrád county in the north, so Vác regained its military importance: between Esztergom and Hatvan it was the only defender of Buda in the north (Visegrád had become totally insignificant by this time). The damaged defences had been under repair during the war, the Turks built bastions on the corners of the castle. Around 1600 there was a moat between the castle and the town with a bridge over it. During the decades in the middle of the 17th century work was continued: three towers about 20 metres high each were rebuilt and the walls standing in between were also fortified with stone.The number of soldiers in Vác increased again. After the year of the reoccupation, in 1621, there were 454 soldiers stationed here; in 1629 the number was 473; in the following year 469. All branches of military forces were represented. In the 1660s and 1670s the treasury in Buda covered the pays of 474 soldiers in Vác. When the Ottomans lost the castles in Nógrád county, three small sanjaks: Nógrád, Szécsény and Fülek also ceased to exist, or more precisely, only their seats were lost but the villages on their territories were still made to pay taxes to the Ottoman treasury and landowners. This needed to be administrated somewhere and that is why Vác became a sanjak centre and kept this position until 1663, the Ottoman reoccupation of Nógrád. The office of the Nógrád Sanjak Beg was transferred here, who as a consequence was often called Vác Beg. Besides, Vác was still an Ottoman district centre in the 17th century, but the borderline of the territory in which Vác lay had been straightened, and now it ran from Szód by the Danube as far as Lőrinci on the River Zagyva, more or less in a straight line.The district included 49 inhabited places. The Muslim judges, the kadis, continued to work in the town as well as at the customs office, although the latter was less busy now. <*•^ l** Al?1»- . ' no7 tóot. 6ayti*ÍÁxticuluí’. IvrtltxUí, yj/rit, dft JWKnÉ tíxJiL íUm, .0 *»IUm;jrgrtí U>jtyS ib U l<anuí cLUu '7~‘*Á hsr*-" di^hur- ■=** Vu/* 0 <5’" . „.„/-„A, ■WjlJ A . The last page of the Peace of Szőny of 1627, with a provision of Vác
