Bács-Kiskun megye múltjából 12. (Kecskemét, 1993)

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not have been left in Csávoly. Files had been produced with a bad quality copy-process on low-quality paper. Questions concerning house property, landed property and those absent are missing. Against enacting clause not one but more flats registered in a single sheet. It. is supposed that original forms had been copied for local, administrative usage. According to register-book notes of C. S. O. a few towns and villages had requested permission to copy and utilize census information. Since the 1939. registration of population had been partial in Csávoly, information deriving from it can be fractional only. Where-ever uncertainty was felt — mostly concerning mother tongue — we obtained information from a few people of the village. Being Csávoly a small village they knew the population well, this way such information generally proved the original data. According this information we slightly have changed summary and facts of statistical data striving to complete the fractional facts of this three-nationality North—

Bácska village. BRIDGE-TOLL LIST OF ÉRSEKÚJVÁR (information on livestock export activity in the end of 16th century) written by Gyula Kocsis It is a well documented Hungarian economic history fact that livestock (mostly cattle) was exported in large quantities to the western markets in the 16th century. However production areas serving this export were less known. Bridge—toll lists revealed by the author of the study and published here make it possible to determine more exactly the trading areas and to examine merchants. In the intorductory part of the study circumstances of origin is examined by the author, with special regard to the records, whether they can be considered to be complex. He states that turnover of two calendar years (1585 and 1588) are fully recorded. During analysis of financial year duration and fair turnover, he states that the driving period lasted from April to December, while 85-90% of the turnover took place between June and October. In the cattle trade there were three out of six market-towns playing main role along rivers Nyitra and Vág. The export production areas are determined from summerised figure of exported livestock of each settlement. In a remaning source of 1560s, recorded by the Ottoman-Turkish treasury administration, it is observable that in the second half of 16th century more and more settlements and