A Pest Megyei Levéltár. Levéltárismertető (Budapest, 2004)

From the history of Pest County

m After 1526 Pest, Pilis, and Solt Counties fell victims to the Turkish conquest. The County Administration had escaped. It had settled first in Heves County, then in Nógrád County and finally in Fülek, in the Castle of Fülek. The Solt headquarters was attached to Pest County in 1569 as court cases went. The Peasant-county, the specific self-defence organization of the villain-peasant class, was founded in 1638 on the occupied territory. Its main task was maintaining public security, safeguarding markets, and guaranteeing personal security of those who were delivering taxes to royal territories. The second lieutenants were appointed at the general assembly of the county's nobility from the candidates of peasants. Union of the authorities of Pest, Pilis and Solt Counties took place in the middle period of the Turkish invasion. This fact was enacted in 1659. Ferenc Wesselényi, the palatine was appointed as Lord Lieutenant of the united county. This is when the county received its coat of arms and stamp. The lieutenant function in Pest-Pilis-Solt County had always been served by the palatine up to 1848, if there was one on duty. The major part of the economic burdens resulting from the liberating battles weighed heavily on the country and had a particularly great load on the scarcely populated areas of Pest-Pilis-Solt County. Local residents made great material sacrifices to aid the allied troops' war. In 1686 Buda, then the county was liberated from the one and a half centuries of Turkish occupation. The burnt out, ransacked, rusticated wasteland was awaiting rebuilders. Az „új" megyeliáz jölwmlokzata (1842) I Ha\ipl]aaade des „neuen" Komitatshaus (1842) / Main facade of the „new" county hall (1842) 146