Mezőkövesd, Borsod County, town map 18th. century. |
Labourers digging , Mezőkövesd, 1940. |
Chapter 21
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
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Guide to Mezőkövesd communities |
Exctraordinary peasant villages, Mezőkövesd
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Volume III, part 2, The Turks in Heves County, 1596-1687, chapter 25.
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Court-martial trial – lucky escape
Flasback, Mezőkövesd by József Molnár
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2. Today’s Hungarian monasteries
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This book by Ernő Kunt contains several references to Mezőkövesd.
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The books mentions the Battle of Mezőkövesd on 28th. Feb, 1849.
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Other publications by Imre Hegyi : articles, memoirs, speeches, interviews, documents.
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Collection of matyó songs sang in Mezőkövesd, collected by music teacher József Kiss. The lyrics and musics are available in PDF format.
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Ethnographer Márta Fügedi mentions Mezőkövesd several times in her books. In this book she analyzes the status of children in matyó families.
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In his book Attila Kovács Paládi mentions the matyó people.
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This present study tries to discover the different types of adaptation with showing the rural landscapes of the Bükk and the settlements of the hills, the labor trends and the associated problems of migration and trading.
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The subject of my dissertation is the Árpádian origin settlements of Abaúj County. This county was densely populated in the Árpádian, the charters mention 250 settlements. Seventy of these settlements were distroyed in the course of time.
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Volume 22 of Borsod Monograph presents the past of North-Hungary’s communication information. This part of the country has the youngest post management board however there are several old post offices with hundreds of years of history in the area. In the 16th century these first posts used to belong to the northern part of Upper-Hungary, from Bratislava to Szatmár.
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Volume 22 of Borsod Monograph presents the past of North-Hungary’s communication information. This part of the country has the youngest post management board however there are several old post offices with hundreds of years of history in the area. In the 16th century these first posts used to belong to the northern part of Upper-Hungary, from Bratislava to Szatmár.
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The conditions of the glass industry of the Bükk and its development were determined by the economic development of a large estate. The mercantilist approach to economic management being enforced in the crown estate of Diósgyőr steadily led to the development of glass industry.
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In folk architecture stone is not used in the traditional way, but following the model of natural caves, it was used to carve cavity in the rock. The condition of such cave development obviously was the presence of a suitable material. The most of the caves of the Carpathian Basin are carved out of volcanic tuff, but some of the loess lands and the sandstone also gave opportunity for people to carve cavities to dwell there.
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Bibliography is essential for local history research. Data provide information on the quantity of work performed and the subject matter. For his work Ferenc Bodgál used the manuscript material of the Ethnographic Museum and the Herman Ottó Museum and he used the bibliography of István Sándor, too. He finsihed his research work on 1st October, 1958.
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After a decade of the first volume, publications and forgotten articles by ethnographic professionals and amateur collectors came to light which are presented in this present volume. This work also contain data of Abaúj and Zemplén counties. The research work was completed on 31st December, 1968.
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Our musuem publishes the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county-related ethnographic literature bibliography. The works of this book show that the county was further strengthened in the field of ethnographic interest.
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Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county has a fair tradition of voluntary ethnographic research movement. Besides the Ethographic Museum has organized and directed the work of the self-motivated ethnographic researchers for decades, two names are needed to be mentioned : Árpád Lajos and Ferenc Bodgál in particular have done much for this movement.
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The document of the conference held in Tokaj on 28th-29th October, 1985.
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A village at the bottom of the Bükk hills at the time of the traditonal farming.
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The document of the 75th birth and the 10th death anniversary memorial meeting.
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by Mária MolnárThe picture of the village drawn in 1978, at the time of the data collection, shows the characteristics of a changing society. Due to this, in many cases simply the trends were possibly shown.
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This book, as a scientific work, is the author’s first attempt to depict the tradition of spinning and weaving of the bygone peasant life. Spinning is highlighted both as an old way of production and as folk tradition and is demonstrated in the nation’s most varied county, in Borsod. This book is the systematic result of long arduous years of research work, giving a comparative analysis of the various ethnographic groups and landscapes of the county.
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Selected material of ethnological clubs and collectors
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Bishop István Katona Geleji (1589-1649), Calvinist Church
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Mining, water, industry
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Bodrog and Borsod counties of the Árpád Age were regions located far from each other having different conditions in terms of geographical, social geographical and lingusitic prespective. In her essay, Rita Póczos, in particular examines wether these differences are reflected in the available data from which the names of settlements can be reconstructed, and if so, to what extent.
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More precious relics of the Árpád Age are revealed every day. Some sort of feverish activity follows the exploration. The research initiated by the Committee of National Monuments, including the results of the excavations in Esztergom led by Tibor Gerevich , has convinced everyone of the extraordinary importance of these works. Ferenc Szabó has contributed to the research work with his studies on the Árpádian churches in Borsod county.
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