Esztergom Évlapjai 2009

CONTENTS Preface 9 Mária Prokopp: First Capital of Hungary: Esztergom's European Importance in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 11 Konstantin Vukov: Doorways and Routes in the Royal Castle of Esztergom in the Middle Ages 29 Margit Beke: Hungárián King Béla IV and the Archbishops of Esztergom 39 Antal András Deák: History of the Sixteenth Century Water Machine of Esztergom 49 Géza Szentmártoni Szabó: Origins of a Poem of Bálint Balassa (1554-1594) 75 Vajk Bánhidy: Activity of József Batthyány, Archbishop of the Hungárián Román Catholic Church (1776-1799). (The Intention to Relocate the Archiepiscopal Center to Esztergom) 91 Margit Beke: Primatical Centre of Hungary: Esztergom, the 'Hungárián Sión' 99 Antal Kora: Esztergom County on nineteenth Century Maps 111 Ildikó Kontsek: "The merit of the picture surpasses all imagination...". (Contrihutions of Esztergom to the Reception of Mihály Munkácsy, a Famous Hungárián Painter in Paris) 129 Ferenc Szabó SJ: Actuality of the oeuvre of a Hungárián Bishop, Ottokár Prohászka (1858-1927) 149 István Bárdos: The City and County of Esztergom from 1919 to 1923 163 Judit Hetves Barátosy: The Activity of the Hungárián Public Care Fund for Population and Families („ONCSA") - Social Housing in City and County of Esztergom 185 Béni L. Balogh -Ferenc Peragovics: The Rag of Esztergom, 1940 -1943 193 Tamás Miklós: An Unknown Periodical: "War News from Esztergom" (SourceReview) 203 Imre Milánkovics: Foundation and Operation of the "People's Tribunal" in Esztergom Between 1945 and 1946 217 Mónika Homor: Esztergom and Espoo (Finland): Chronicle of a 35-year-old town-twinning 243