Jaskyňa Čertova pec vo Vedomostiach Nitrianskej stolice Mateja Bela

• Authors: Peter Chrastina

Title variants

EN

Čertova pec Cave in M. Bel’s Nitra County Notitia

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Matthias Bel (1684–1749) in his work Notitia Hungariae Novae historico-geographica offered a contemporary view on the status, importance, response and particular facts about Hungarian counties within the Habsburg Monarchy. The study represents historical and geographical research of history and environmental issues of the Čertova pec Cave, which served as an occasional shelter for travellers and shepherds. Description of the subject is based on the text “Other places of discovery” in § XII. science section (Membrum primum physicum) of the general parts of Notitia of the Nitra County in the Kingdom of Hungary (1742). The “probe” into Bel’s characteristics of this topic has been realized through critical commentary on contemporary texts supplemented by literature and information obtained by studying old maps. Findings have been compared with the results of field research and author’s own knowledge of the subject.

Keywords

EN

Čertova pec Cave; shelter; Nitra County; Bel Matthias (1684–1749); Notitia Hungariae Novae historico-geographica

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historická geografie (Historical Geography)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 139-154
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Peter  Chrastina

• Historická geografie, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic