H. Kolba Judit szerk.: Historical Exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum Guide 2 - From the Foundation of the State until the Expulsion of the Ottomans - The history of Hungary in the 11th to 17th centuries (Budapest, 2005)

ROOM 6 - Hungary Split into Three Parts. The Ottoman Occupation (second half of the 16th century-17th century) (Ibolya Gerelyes)

49. Turkish copper jug with incised decoration, Buda, 17th century 50. Turkish silver bowl, 1537 the settlements was begun. The sanjak censuses registered the inhabitants of the settlements, and the amount of taxes and tithes expected from them. Thus these estimates, written in Arabic script, have an extraordinary importance when we want to survey the population situation and economic circumstances of the period. From the defters extant in fair number, a detail of the 1579 census in the Nógrád sanjak can be seen. Ottoman soldiers were stationed, and different offices located, in the occupied castles and the larger governmental centres, respectively. In their wake Muslim merchants and artisans followed. The face of these settlements underwent a gradual change. The mediaeval buildings, churches, monasteries, and palaces were transformed by the Turks according to their own purposes, and the houses were also altered in Turkish fashion. After some years works by Ottoman architects appeared in the larger towns: jamis and moshees with buildings planted around them, namely the turbe containing the tomb of the founder, the medrese (in other words, the school), the imaret providing free meals for the poor, and the indispensable bath. An engraving representing Buda and Pest shows the changes in the two towns during the decades of the occupation, if not exactly from the topographical point of view but nevertheless suggestively, with the minarets, domed baths and turbes determining the general appearance of the twin towns. The memorial tablet on the 17th-century Mahmud pasha bastion of Buda Castle reminds us of the military building activity performed by the Turks (Fig. 48). But it was not only the appearance of the places transformed into governmental and military centres that underwent a change: as a result of the activity of Ottoman merchants and artisans who settled in the country, new branches of crafts were introduced which served the Muslim way of life. One was braziery. The high standard of the Turkish braziers of Buda is shown in two jugs with spouts, with engraved decoration, found in Buda (Fig. 49). They were used most likely as water-jugs, although but they may have had a role in everyday ritual washing. Eating customs and meals different from