| Henrik Zoltan Toth wrote: |
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I'll post some pics from the "The army of the Transylwanian Principality" (Az Erdélyi fejedelemség hadserege) on next weekend. Samuel, I'll continue the other thread too. Pics from Győző Somogyi (naiv painter; he thinks, he could paint :) ) Zoltán |
That would be awesome Zoltán , thank you very much. I am especially interested in the subsequent faith of Zapolyas army following the Mohacs battle. Sadly, besides the Polish stuff (the excellent Brezinski comes to mind) there isn't much written in English on our region (and sadly my knowledge of hungarian is non-existent).
| János Sibinger wrote: |
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One type of soldiers... Or semi soldiers that might be interesting from your point of wiev are Hajdúk. (One : hajdú. More: hajdúk) These people originally were stockmen, looking after neat. (Cows, etc. I hope this was the word for it!) After the great geographical discoveries, Western-European countries started to upgrade their industry, meanwhile Hungary tried to make money of agriculture. We have hearded animals, and neat was the main export good of the kingdom during the Turkish stay. These animals represented high value, so thus these ,,cowboys" gained right to use weapons for the protection of the herd and themselves. These stockmen, experienced in fighting were welcome in the war against the Turkish raiding and staying forces, during the 150 years of the ocuppation. On the end of the XVI.st century, there were two types of hajdú-s. The royal hajdú, who received 2 forints per month, and served in the végvár-s (castles and fortifications wich were built for the defence of our borders) and the free hajdú-s, were given their own land to live on (and some further special rights, similar to the nobility's) on the very beginning od the XVII.nd century, by István Bocskay. |
Interesting insight János ! Often herdsmen , shepards and the like were among the fiercest of fighting men ... On a side note , are the "Yugoslav" hajduks related to the Hungarian ones?.. It seem that the ones from the balkans were more of an outlaws.. (But perhaps Boris could correct me and offer his perspective)
Cheers,
Samuel