Kenyeres István (szerk.): Urbs. Magyar Várostörténeti Évkönyv XV. - Urbs 15. (Budapest, 2021)

Abstracts

Abstracts

Szabolcs Varga

The Birth of a Capital: Changes in the Role of Zagreb under the Reign of Ferdinand I

of Habsburg (1526-1564)

The study analyses the changes in the history of Zagreb over the decades following the battle of Mohács. Specifically, the study focuses on two main questions. First, how Zagreb was integrated into the new Hungarian border defence system and became one of the central settlements of the emerging Slavonian borderland. Its background is the internal war between János Szapolyai I and Ferdinand I of Habsburg for the domination over the Hungarian Kingdom, which began in 1527. At first, Zagreb was divided in this issue. The townspeople wanted a Habsburg ruler, while the Bishop of Zagreb, Simon Erdődy and the chapter of Zagreb, which mied the church district of the town, supported King János. For this reason, in 1529 the town was besieged twice, and suffered severe damages during the fights. However, at the beginning of the 1530s it was decided that the town and the region remained under Habsburg rale, and it served as an important logistic centre for the relief troops and supplies arriving from Austrian territory. The bond between Zagreb and the Habsburg government became stronger, and at the time of Ferdinand’s death in 1564, Zagreb was clearly the most important free royal town of Slavonia.

The second part of the study examines the process how Zagreb became one of the centres of the local nobility as the central site of the provincial assemblies. It was an important change, because in the late Middle Ages usually the market towns of Kőrös county hosted the assemblies of the Slavonian nobility, but because of the Ottoman occupation, from the 1530s the assemblies were held in Zagreb more and more often. Moreover, two institutions, the assemblies of the Croatian and the Slavonian nobility merged in these decades, and later on, these events contributed greatly to the rise of Zagreb as the capital of the emerging Croatia.

Péter Török

Efforts for the Privileges. The Relationship between the Heyduck Towns of Szabolcs

and Ferenc Rákóczi II

The history of the Heyduck towns of Szabolcs (Nánás, Böszörmény, Szoboszló, Dorog, Polgár, Hadház, Vámospércs), which started at the beginning of the 17th century, raises several questions for future generations, especially about the less researched 18th century. The settlements underwent major transformations within a century and by the end

Urbs. Magyar Várostörténeti Évkönyv xv. 2020. 413^122. p.