Bukovszky László (szerk.): Egy régió története a XI. századtól 1945-ig. Mátyusföld - Lokális és regionális monográfiák 4. (Komárom-Dunaszerdahely, 2005)
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XXVL Act of 1681 declares those settlements by their names, where the Protestants could practise their religion freely. These were so called "articular" places where they were allowed to build a church, a vicarage and a school , and officially the religion could be practised in public only there. There were two articular places in Mátyusföld: Pusté Úľany and Reca. Practising the religion in non-articular places was enabled by Joseph II ‘s Tolerance Decree from 1781. The absolute freedom of religion was ensured only by acts from 1848. In consequence of historic events the social, ethnical and religious composition of Mátyusföld changed a lot in the long course of time. The changes of ethnic and social structure were affected by epidemic, wars, spontaneous or organized migrations, but there were certain changes of sovereign power, which remade the social, ethnical and religious combination of the region quite radically. And now some information about the ethnic structure of the region - though we can rely on estimations only - the Slovak- Hungarian ethnic border was more north of the here discussed Mátyusföld. The Turkish ruination, but firstly the Fifteen Years’ War had a great impact on the structure of the region. Because of migration and reconstruction in the 18m century the above mentioned border was pushed southward and this brought the development of a new ethnic structure, which was similar to the situation of the period from the World War II. The majority of the population of Mátyusföld was created by the Hungarian ethnic group. The second ethnic group according to the order of members was the Slovak, that lived in a relatively closed block northward from the line of Boldog-Reca-Malá Mača-Veľká Mača-Váhovce-Dlhá nad Váhom. The changes of 1918-19 had a bad effect on the formation of the rate of Hungarian population. In a ten years’ time (1920-1930) the number of the Hungarians decreased of 14 per cent, whilst the number of the Slovaks grew of 26 per cent. This fali can be traced back partly to the natural assimilation, to an emigrational wave passed off during the land reform or to the violent and hidden assimilating intentions of the state offices. (Translation: Szabó Csilla) 384
