The Solt district was the eastern part of the medieval Alba (Fejér) county, in the
centre of the Hungarian Kingdom.
The origin of the district leading to the end of the 13th century, when the royal
counties transformed into nobiliary
counties. This time, the influence of the nobiles in the eastern part had been increasing,
and they had achieved relative
independency from Fejérvár town, the centre of the county. That was the reason of
the estabilishment of the Solt
district. The existence of the district lasted from the beginning of the 14th century
to the beginning of the 16th century.
Around 1510 the district became an independent county, and because of the Turkish
invasion it operated only for
approximately three decades. Due to Turkish expansion the county administration was
displaced to Eger, and in 1559 it
was unifed with Pest county’s administration by royal law. The political influence
of the region was weak, as the society
of the district/county consisted of landed gentries, who had only regional influence.
The district’s history ended in 1659,
when it was merged into Pest-Pilis-Solt county.
The aim of this study is to research the administration and border changes of Solt
district, later called Solt county.
An interdisciplinary methodology and a unique GIS system were used that were developed
to manage, model and
display the medieval settlement database.
