A Pest Megyei Levéltár. Levéltárismertető (Budapest, 2004)
From the history of Pest County
The county took a large share in the 1848-1849 War of Independence. Kossuth had his first recruiting speech in Cegléd. The inhabitants of the county agreed to support the army with a significant amount oi special tax and 6200 new recruits. The most important victories of the famous Spring Campaign of the Hungarian Army were gained in this county (Tápióbicske, Isaszeg, Vác). After the War of Independence was defeated, the I labsburg absolutism had torn the county into two pats, the Pest-Pilis and the Pest-Solt parts, to eliminate the county thai was the constitutional base of the national development and self-protection. Based on the 1867 Austro-Hungarian conciliation the county structure was also restored. Kiskunság was attached to PestPilis-Solt County in 1876 within the county-reform project. Following the conciliation, development of the middle class took a powerful impetus in a certain part of the county. Budapest developing to be a metropolis had attracted and welcomed the agrarian labour surplus for a while. The industry of the capital had been built out in that period. Pest, Buda, Obuda and Margit Island were united to be the capital of the country in 1873. Obuda and the Margit Island were "torn out of the heart of the county". The population in the capital and in the surrounding areas was rapidly increasing. There were 370 thousands people living in Pest and in Buda in 1880, while in 1910 this figure grew to 881,000. The powerful and very last, but: also contradictory industrial development together with the uneven transformation of agriculture reinforced the already existing social problems. During the 1905 governmental crisis, the counties temporarily denied to carry out the decrees following the example of Pest County. The ordeals of World War I had made the condition of thousands of people even harder, plunging most of them fell into poverty. The defeated war and the following harsh mutilation of the country had increased the problems and despair. After the "Aster Revolution" the strongest headquarters of the Republic, taking over the power, was in the vicinity of the capital, the "Red Pest County" being called like this by the contemporaries. They introduced dictatorship of the proletariat, as the only one solution found for the accumulated problems in both internal- and foreign affairs issues, were fated to fail together with the first successful then unsuccessful, patriotic war of the Red Army. Pest'PiliS'Solt-Kiskun vármegye címere Siegel des Komilats Pest-Pílis-Soít-Kiskun Stamp of the County Pest-Pilis-SoltKiskun Gcilgamácsa község pecsétje (1900) Siegel der Gemeinde Galgamácsa ( 1900) Stamp of Galgamáosa village (1900) Lórév község pecsétje (1900) Siegel der Gemeinde Lórév ( 1900) Stamp of Lórév village (1900) Abony község pecsétje f 1900) Siegel der Gemeinde Abcnty (1900) Stamp of Abony village (1 900) 14^
