### Syrmia, Macho, Szörénység
Syrmia The region lying in the east of the territory between the rivers Danube and Sava. In the 9th century it was under Frank, then Bulgarian rule, but from the 10th century on it was controlled by the Hungarians. According to a general opinion, during the age of the foundation of the state there was a border bailiff district here (marchia) - and not a castle district -, this is why Syrmia was also called Marchia, its Latin name. This land had another name as well: Bolgyán. By the 13th century the territory of Syrmia was divided into two castle districts: Szerém (in the east) and Valkó (in the west). 12th century Byzantine sources mention Syrmia as the richest and most fertile region of Hungary, and this was true till the 15th century, when the Turks devastated the country. Wines from Syrmia were very famous. ZSA Macho The region bordered by the rivers Sava, Drina and Kolubara. From 1247 its called Macsó [Macho], earlier it belonged to Styria . From 1247 it was the possession of Prince Rostislav (husband of Anna, king Béla IV's daughter) - who was driven away from Halics - and his heirs. After 1272 it became a viceroyship headed by Hungarian barons. In 1284 it fell into the hands of the dispositioned Serbian king, Dragutin, due to his marriage to Katharine, daughter of Stephen V. Charles I took back Macsó in 1319, and he reorganised the viceroyship. ZSA Szörénység The territory bordered by the Southern Carpathian mountains, river Olt and the Lower-Danube. When it fell under Hungarian rule, in the beginning of the 1230s it became a viceroyship. After the Tartar invasion Béla IV made an unsuccessful effort to settle down the Johannite order of knighthood here. In the 1280s this province escaped the supremacy of the Hungarian kings. The local Romanian vaivodes governed the region. ZSA