civitates tavernicales, civitates personales, the mining towns of Lower-Hungary, Saxon Unity

Sopron, Franciscan church
Christ in fron of Pilate
Bratislava (Pozsony) - St Martin cathedral
Körmöcbánya
mining
Bártfa, town hall
civitates tavernicales

Free Hungarian royal towns which took their cases of appeal to the court of the master tavernicorum, where the case was judged according to law, which was based on the law of Buda. By the 15th century there were seven such towns: Buda, Pozsony. Nagyszombat, Sopron, Kassa, Bártfa, Eperjes, and at the end of the Middle Ages Pest and Újlak also joined them.

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civitates personales

Free royal towns which took their cases of appeal to the court of royal presence. At the very end of the Middle Ages Székesfehérvár, Esztergom, Lőcse, Kisszeben and Szakolca belonged to this group.

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mining towns of Lower-Hungary

Free royal mining towns of the Garam region. These were Selmecbánya, Besztercebánya, Libetbánya, Bakabánya, Bélabánya, Körmöcbánya, Újbánya.

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Saxon Unity

The administrative unit of Saxons living in Transylvania, which was formed in 1486 with the confirmation of the Andreanum and lasted until 1876. This unit had power over lrgal, administrative, economic and church matters. Its head was the lord mayor and royal judge of Szeben, who was called the Saxon marquis from the 17th century onwards. The "Seven chairs" - which actually consisted of eight-, the "two chairs", the Beszterce region and the Barcaság belonged to the Saxon Unity.

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