Water courses of the Nitra County in Bel´s Notitia Cover Image

Vodné toky Nitrianskej stolice v Belových Vedomostiach
Water courses of the Nitra County in Bel´s Notitia

Author(s): Katarína Rácová
Subject(s): History, History of Education
Published by: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Filozofická fakulta
Keywords: Matthias Bel; Water Courses; Nitra County; Historical and Geographical Knowledge of New Hungary;

Summary/Abstract: Matthias Bel in his work Notitia Hungariae Novae historico-geographica (in English the „Historical and Geographical Knowledge of New Hungary) offered a contemporary view of the condition, significance, response and specific features of Hungarian counties within the Habsburg monarchy. The aim of the presented study is published the first Slovak translation of Paragraph V of the natural scientific part of the Notitia of the Nitra County in which Bel briefly described water courses.

  • Issue Year: 21/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 191-197
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Slovak