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

Baranya Megyei Levéltár (Baranya County Archives)

outstanding, covering the same period. These archival groups are completed by the records of the Imperial-Royal County Authority between 1850 and 1860, of the County Court between 1850 and 1861 and of the Central Court between 1861 and 1871. Of the county organs on medium level the chief constables of the Hegyhát district (1883-1944), of the Baranyavár district (1923-1941), of the Pécs district (1882-1944) and of the Szentlönnc district (1921-1944) have produced valuable records. These archival groups may be used with the help of coeval finding aids. The archives of Pécs city was regarded both in the feudal and the bourgeois periods as the largest regional repository in Hungary, in view of its valuable records. Except the devastation mentioned before its series is almost complete from 1707 to 1848. Beside the records of the city assembly and the council, the economic and political history of the city is illuminated by the records of Pécs City Finance Office (1783-1848), Pécs City Tax Collector's Office (1712-1848), Pécs City Treasury of the Orphans' Court (1783-1848) and the Pécs City Land Register (1750-1848). The papers on the fight of the settlement to reach the status of a royal free city between 1703 and 1780 make a special collection. From the bourgeois period the records of the Pécs city council are lackless and unselected, totalling 820 running metres. The records of Mohács borough council preserved between 1742 and 1848 are valuable sources on the development of a privileged borough, in spite of the numerous lacks. The journals and the council records of the bourgeois period have been preserved entirely, together with their coeval finding aids. The parishes of the county have no significant material from the age of feudalism. The journals and the administrative records of the local selfgovernment bodies are preserved from the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century. As to the regional specialized organs of administration the most numerous and significant records are due to the Pécs State Survey Inspectorate (18511944), the forest inspectorates, the trade corporations, the State Public Works Office, the Hungarian Railways (MÁV) and the Post Office with their Pécs directorates. In the educational administration the records of the Pécs Chief Inspectorate (1881-1944) and the Baranya County Inspectorate (1919-1944) are prominent. The archival material of the regional organs of jurisdiction has sometimes a national significance. The records of the Pécs Table (1891-1944), the Pécs Tribunal (1872-1944), those of the District Courts of the Pécs, Sásd,