HRAD A MESTO NITRA V BELOVÝCH VEDOMOSTIACH
CASTLE AND TOWN NITRA IN BEL’S NOTITIA
Author(s): Katarína RácováSubject(s): Regional Geography, Historical Geography, Local History / Microhistory, 18th Century
Published by: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Filozofická fakulta
Keywords: Matthias Bel; Nitra County; Historical and Geographical Knowledge of New Hungary; the History of the Castle and the Town of Nitra;
Summary/Abstract: Matthias Bel – author of the work Notitia Hungariae Novae historico-geographica (in English the Historical and Geographical Knowledge of New Hungary). In Knowledge of contemporary Kingdom of Hungary (Notitia Hungariae Novae), Matej Bel (Mathias Belius, Bél Mátyás) gives a detailed geographic, historical and ethnographic description of particular Hungarian counties from the position of 18’s century man. The work is written in Latin. In the present study is published the first Slovak translation of the historical part of the Notitia of the Nitra County, in which Bel describes the history of the castle and the town of Nitra.
Journal: Studia Historica Nitriensia
- Issue Year: 24/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 446-455
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Slovak