Virág Árpád: A Sió és a Balaton közös története. 1055–2005 (KÖZDOK Kft., Budapest, 2005)
The common history of Lake Balaton and the Sió Canal (1055–2005)
ANNEXED ILLUSTRATIONS, TABLES AND MAPS 529 Part of the map by Lazarus secretarius. The wood-cut map sheet, printed in 1528, had remained for close to two centuries the most true-to-form presentation of the Carpathian Basin, although Lake Balaton is shown in an oversimplified form / 73 Detail of János Zsámboky’s (Sambucus) map of the Balaton Region (1571) / 74 Signature of Sámuel Mikoviny (1700-1750). The prominent engineer has plotted the maps of several Hungarian counties for the book ,JVotitia...” of Mátyás Bél / 79 Detail of the schematical map sheet denoted Mo. 13, plotted by an unknown cartographer in the second half of the 18th century, and attributed formerly to Sámuel Mikoviny / 82 Detail of another map sheet denoted Mo. 14 of the former schematical map, the inscription implying underwater ruins off the Udvari and Örvényes villages / 83 First page of the „Urbárium” (list of serf services) of Fok village (present Siófok) / 88 The Sió canal at Siójut village / 96 The bed of a Sió tributary, the Kis-Koppány streamlet, in September, 2005, after the passage of a major flood wave / 98 Mezőkomárom town situated along the Sió canal has played an important role in the history of the region / 99 Present view of Ozora castle, which had been one of the key defences in the upstream Sió valley during the past centuries / 107 Present view of Simontornya castle /111 The Calvinist church at Balatonszabadi, built in 1794/ 113 Siómaros village on a sheet of the first military survey (1783)/! 14 A typical lake Balaton fish species, the pike-perch, from L. F Marsigli’s Danube monography / 118 The black crab, from L. F Marsigli’s Danube monography (1726)/ 119 Chapter IV Map I. of one of the most important large estates in the Sió valley, the Batthyány domain. (The 1818 copy of the map surveyed and plotted in 1757) / 128 Map II. of the Batthyány domain in the Sió valley. (The 1818 copy of the map surveyed and plotted in 1757) / 131 Sámuel Krieger’s lake Balaton map of 1776, detail showing the Sió outlet / 135 Gyula Lotz (1930-1991) hydraulic engineer, cartographer, engineer expert in the debate on the historical water levels of Lake Balaton / 140 Sámuel Krieger’s Sió regulation map (1776) / 145 Close to 1 km long reach of the Sió outlet from lake Balaton on a layout map plotted by János d’Estopigniani, engineer of Somogy County / 155 Chapter V Signature of Ferenc Böhm, engineer of the first Sárvíz regulation project and supervisor of the works in 1760-1770/ 160 The Soponya manor of the Count Zichy family. The Zichy counts were influential landowners in the Sárvíz-Sió region / 163 Baron Károly Sigray, royal commissioner of the Sárvíz regulation project from 1771 to 1796/ 166 Signature of baron Károly Sigray (1730?- after 1797)/ 168
