Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

Heves Megyei Levéltár (Heves County Archives)

Together with this the series of "subprefect's records" was established and the various nobilitary conscriptions were united in a collection. The archives was removed in 1927 to its present place, the then unused prison building. The archival material assumed its present shape in course of the arrangement from 1941 to 1973. At the same time a large scale gathering of records was executed, increasing the archival material from 1000 to 2800 running metres. Simultaneously with the collecting also the arrangement took place. * About 65 per cent, of the material is in Hungarian, 35 per cent, in Latin and German. Its most valuable part is the collection before Mohács, consisting of 986 charters. The archival material of the united county has a national significance, as the county administration was competent for the Turkish-occupied parts of three counties, Pest, Nógrád, Heves and Exterior Szolnok, while later, in the nineteenth century Heves was one of the leading counties of the antiHapsburg resistance. The series of the journals of nobilitary assemblies begins with 1657. Alas, the popular conscriptions and land conveyance books, together with the records of central and local administration of the Bach era (1850-1860) have been annihilated by the amateurish selections of the nineteenth century. The archival material of the administrative center of the county, Eger, possesses enhanced significance, since besides being a center of administration it is a geographical gate and also a seat of a bishopric, later archbishopric. Since the conversion to Christianity it is a center of a diocese, and as to its legal status (apart from a minor period) a borough subjected to the bishop, or archbishop, respectively, up to the mid-nineteenth century. So its economic, social, cultural and political character is determined partly by the strong influence of the Roman Catholic church, partly by the one-sided viticulture, being also the centre of one of the most significant wine-growing regions of historical Hungary. The continuous series' of the city records begin with the end of the seventeenth century. In the capitalistic period the mayor's records represent an uninterrupted, also quantitatively significant series. The records of the other town of the county, Gyöngyös, illustrate the special type of the development of Hungarian boroughs. The material of this town is continuous from 1650. The records of the villages of the county are in archival custody from the