Adatok a komáromi hajózás történetéhez
Data on the history of shipping in Komárom

Author(s): Béla Angyal
Subject(s): Economic history, Local History / Microhistory, 19th Century
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Summary/Abstract: Due to its favorable location in terms of water transport, Komárom played a significant role in the Hungarian grain and timber trade at the beginning of the 19th century. I present the shipping and boat towing of the time based on two archival documents from 1830 and 1831. From the census taken in connection with the cholera epidemic of 1831, we can find out how many residents were away from home and traveled the rivers. We can get to know the merchants, boatmen and boat tows by name, and we can also get an idea of what distant settlements they reached and which trade centers the boatmen from Komárom visited.

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