Bukovszky László (szerk.): Egy régió története a XI. századtól 1945-ig. Mátyusföld - Lokális és regionális monográfiák 4. (Komárom-Dunaszerdahely, 2005)
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Mátyusföld II The history of a region from the 11th century until 1945 Résumé This enterprise complements the more-decade-long debt of Hungarian history writing in Slovakia. In comparison with other regions due to several occasions there has not been an attempt yet to introduce Mátyusföld (Matúšova zem) and its eventful and historic past. This edition is started up by an alloy of well-known and generally accepted explanations about Mátyusföld, which is based on the physical geography of five settlements of municipal division: Senec, Sládkovičovo, Sered', Galanta and Šaľa. The marked area on the strength of the act No. 378/1922 is just completely equal with the administrative layout of the township: with former districts of Galanta and Šaľa. To simplify: the edition makes a survey of the region’s history from west towards east from Senec to Močenok, on the north-south line from Sered' to Neded beginning with the Árpád Era and finishing with theWorld War II. The term Mátyusföld (terrae Mathei) occurring in written sources from the 14“’ century (1384) denotes Máté Csák’s properties as far as Nedec in the Trenčľn County. According to some sources from the beginning of the following century the definition of Mátyusföld located in the Bratislava County refers to a municipal territory (comitatus de Mathyvsfelde). In the tithing register of 1545 the expression of “Mathvsfelde districts’’ can be found. The above mentioned data evidently show that the two hundred-yearold notion of Mátyusföld labelling the marked region created a territorial and administrative unity, which became narrower by the time. The attributive mátyusföldi (a person or object etc. from that territory) itself from the 17,h century was used for distinguishing settlements with identical name, such as Mostová, that is mentioned as Mátyusföldi Kürt or the neighbouring Čiená Voda that can be found in latter sources as Mátyusr\yék. The here examined Mátyusföld as a physiogeographical territory, apart from two short terms, never formed an administrative unity (parish) in the past. During the development of royal, noble then civic counties the borderline of the region was marked by the river Váh and its dead branch. Westward from the line there was Bratislava County and the area lying eastwards belonged to Nitra County. The Czechoslovak period of civic county system broke with the old historical tradition. From Is' January, 1923 the Šaľa District from Nitra Region was linked to Bratislava Region. Excluding the administrative system in the Bach Era it happened the first time ever that this territory belonged to the same administrative district. The conditions being valid until the first Viennese Resolution were elongated by setting a new region - Nitra-Bratislava Region. During the one thousand-year-long history not a single free kingdom town was born in this area. But then again in certain periods a different number of so called market towns or boroughs occurred. The first oppidums developed around the 13,B, 14th centuries were in the authority of the landowner, but after gaining certain privileges were formed into smaller economical and trade centres. Amongst the market towns a self-contained subgroup can be framed -i.e. Galanta in the rank of noble market town. In the 18'" 378
