THE BEGINNINGS OF THE GREEK-CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ORADEA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. THE BEIUŞ ESTATE CONSCRIPTION OF 1778
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE GREEK-CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ORADEA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. THE BEIUŞ ESTATE CONSCRIPTION OF 1778

Summary/Abstract: The Beiuş estate conscription of 1778 holds valuable information regarding the fiscal state of the local population. The Greek-Catholic Diocese had just been created and it needed a source of income to sustain itself and at the same time to grow. This estate was one of the richest in the whole county, formed from 72 villages with Beiuş at its center. From buildings such as mills, inns and taverns, to farms and homes, they are all presented inside the document. Moise Dragoşi, the first Greek-catholic bishop of Oradea struggled to get this estate and it took four years. The conscription in this case represents not just an official piece of paper, but a window into the life of an eighteenth-century peasant.

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