Matthias Bel in his work Notitia Hungariae Novae historico-geographica offered a contemporary view of the status, importance, response and concrete realities of counties of Hungary within the Habsburg monarchy. The study is historical and geographical research history and environmental issues of non-ferrous raw materials, and their extraction in the Nitra County in the first half of the 18th century. Description of the subject contains text „Other finds“ in § XII. science section (Membrum primum physicum) of general parts of Notitia of Nitra County in Hungary (1742). The „probe‟ into Bel’s characteristics of this theme we have realized through critical commentary on contemporary texts supplemented by other sources, respectively literature and information obtained by studying geological maps. We finally compared specific findings with the results of field research and their own knowledge of the subject.
The study represents a probe into the issue of conceptualisation of environmental history in Slovakia based on a research of Slovak and foreign literature. Chronological aspect emphasizes the period of the end of the Middle Ages and the Modern Period. An overview of the process of formation and development of the environmental history is complemented with the characteristics of the discipline from the most significant representatives in the field. The study also deals with the meta-theoretical and theoretical-methodological aspects of the study of the relations between man and the environment in the past.
Paper analyses the road network development in 18th century Hungary, mainly on the territory of today’s Slovakia. It summarizes and explains the circumstances accompanying its modernization since the first half of the 18th century. In the first part, the authors interpret the transport infrastructure development in a broader socio-economic and geographical context. In the second part, they detailed the historical-geographical aspects of road construction in the 18th century. The solved section of the road between Trakovice and Leopoldov is unique because Samuel Mikovíni planned it. They built the road between 1735 and 1737. We want to answer the question to what extent we can consider this road as a model example of the construction of other roads and if the road was somehow specific due to the work of Mikovíni. We are also interested in how Mikovíni was affected by the know-how of building modern roads, which penetrated the Habsburg monarchy as a French technological import.
The paper deals with the reconstruction of climatic and hydrological aspects of the flash flood in Sobotište in 1678 in terms of historical geography. The weather conditions and consequences (especially damage) caused by this natural disaster were outlined by M. Bel in paragraph IX. CHVOYNITZE (slov. Chvojnica), § V. Natural History of the General Part of the Knowledge of the Nitra County (1742). More detailed information about the given flood is provided by transcripts of anabaptist codes by J. Beck (1883), family historiography by D. Krman jr. (1708) and monograph and paper written by Ľ. Pauliny (1888, 1891). We obtained further data and parallels to the issue from the literature, data from the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute and old maps.
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