Torsello, Davide - Pappová, Melinda: Social Networks in Movement. Time, interaction and interethnic spaces in Central Eastern Europe - Nostra Tempora 8. (Somorja-Dunaszerdahely, 2003)
Interethnic spaces
158 József Liszka Similarly, in Köbölkút (Gbelce), the village next to Kisújfalu, there were similar views concerning the location of Mátyusföld: it was a region lying somewhere westward, around Galánta (Galanta) and Vágsellye (Šaľa). In a 16,h century tithe record, Mária Jeršová attempts to circumscribe the region on the basis of a toponym list, Proventus decimarum districtus Mathvsfelde anni 1545. According to this, the eastern border of Mátyusföld does not extend to the left-bank of the Váh River. The record gives thirty-eight toponyms one third of which is still inhabited by ethnic Hungarians. The villages Szene (Senec), Diószeg (Sládkovičovo), Cseklész (Bernolákovo), and Boldogfa (Boldog) represent the western border of ethnic Hungarian Mátyusföld, while its southern and eastern borders lie at Kismácséd (Malá Mača), Nagymácséd (Veľká Mača), Taksony (Matuškovo), Felső-Szeli (Horné Salibÿ), Alsó-Szeli (Dolné Saliby), Nádszeg (Trstice), and (Pozsony) Vezekény (Vozokany) (Jeršová 1947: 406-407). Gyula Kristó also agrees with the results of the data presented by Jeršová (Kristó 1973: 36- 37). György Lőrinczi, in his historical novelette about the life of the Hungarian King Hunyadi Mátyás, circumscribes Mátyusföld in the same way: “Mátyus földje is part of Hungary that spreads north of Komárom and the Váh-Danube River to the Carpathian Mountains. Once all of this belonged to Máté Csák of Trencsén. It is named after him.” (Lőrinczy undated: 11). According to this, the Váh River forms the region’s eastern border. This view, however, is contradicted by the author himself, when in his book King Matthias, moving from Baromiak (close to Érsekújvár) to Neszmély (at the right-bank of the Danube), says: It will be a splendid ride all along the land of Mátyus! [...] Anyhow, even now we are in the land of Mátyus, since Baromiak is part of it as well. It is a beauteous land, Fridolin! You will see yourself. Shall we go to Neszmély then? (Lőrinczy undated: 25)
