A Pest Megyei Levéltár. Levéltárismertető (Budapest, 2004)

Seventeen thousand meters of historical source/Introduction of the main archives

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entendre (J751) Stamp of town of Szentendre (1751) Szentendre Város Icmócsánah pecsétje Siegel des Stadtrates voir .Szentendre Stamp of the Szentendre Town Council ' .Szentendre város pecsétje (1902) Siegel der Stadt Szentendre (1902) Stamp of town of Szentendre (1902) are indispensable sources for the economy and family historical researches. The economic situation of the citizens of the town are perpetuated in the tax collectors' ledgers, in the different tax registers, which until 1848 inclusive take up almost 20 linear meter on the shelves of the Archive. In the Archives of Nagykőrös town the amount of documents generated during the last 250 years of the feudal age is 59,28 linear meters. The documents of the local administrative organisation - the mayor's office and the town council - generated after 1848 are also extant. The administrative documents of Nagykőrös town are in the safekeeping of the Archives until 1990 inclusively. Szentendre. It was a market town until 1872, between 1872 and 1929 it was a town with organised council, and from 1929 it was a county town. From before 1950 almost 100 linear meters of documents are kept here. The area of Szentendre was inhabited since the time of the Romans - who established an army camp here. The diplomas mention it as a church property since the 11

th century, but in the 14

rh century it was already a royal property. In the 1 5

th century the Serbians escaping from the South from the Ottomans settled here. In the Ottoman age Szentendre belonged to the Buda Sandjak, while in the second part of the 17

th century it was the land of the Zichys, and, after a legal act, in 1767 it became the property of the crown. Following the Ottoman battles a new wave of Serbian settlers came, and obtained a significant role in the management of the town in the 18

th century. From the documents of the feudal age (-1848) the series of the records of the council boards (1721-1848) and the set of the administrative documents (from 1704) are of special importance. Their length is 21 linear meters. The administrative documents were preserved only up to 1805, the following years have been lost. The tax collector of the market town left more than 5 linear meters of documents to posterity, and the archives of the 18

th century (1741-1778) of the manor court of the town mounting up to one linear meter is not insignificant, either. From after 1848 the most remarkable is the archive unit of the mayor's documents. Their total length, until 1950 is 43 linear meters. The administrative documents remained it the most complete state, but there are documents from the fields of election, army, finance, industry associations, constructions, transgressions, public supply and property in the archive unit, too. 176