Regionális különbségek a Bánátban az 1828-as adóösszeírás térinformatikai és statisztikai kiértékelése alapján = Regional Differences in the Banat Based on the Gisaided Statistical Evaluation of the Conscription from 1828

Demeter, Gábor (2025) Regionális különbségek a Bánátban az 1828-as adóösszeírás térinformatikai és statisztikai kiértékelése alapján = Regional Differences in the Banat Based on the Gisaided Statistical Evaluation of the Conscription from 1828. TÖRTÉNETI FÖLDRAJZI KÖZLEMÉNYEK, 13 (1-2). pp. 47-64. ISSN 2064-390X

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Abstract

In the recent years two interesting books had been published on the Temeswarer Banat in the 18-19th c. The work of Benjamin Landais uses archival sources of the HHStA, the other book from 2024, by Timothy Olin) also relies on the archival material located in the HHStA, the Hungarian National Archives and the Romanian National Archives. However, neither of them decided to analyze the vast amount of available statistical data on Adatbázisok Online at the Hungarian National Archives. The 1828 conscription of tax-paxer peasants has recently been uploaded for the whole country – including the Banat. These sheets allow researchers to carry out investigations not only at settlement level (using settlement level summaries, the so-called Generalia sheets), but at individual level too. These contain information on family members, arable land, meadows, vineyards, animals, state tax paid, etc. Together with information of external features (soil quality, slope steepness, slopes with southern aspect, religion, ethnicity, etc.) this offers possibility for a fine scale quantitative analysis and the measuring of intra- (and inter)regional inequalities. Data from 1828 has been digitized within the frames of GISta Hungarorum project, which has already contained the unpublished data of the 1786 conscription of the Chancellery for the whole country at settlement level. The structure of the 1786 conscription is very similar to that of the 1828, but the former contains the days spent on compulsory work (corvée) and the so-called naturalia, the gifts in kind given to the landlord. However, it fails to account on land revenues of arable lands, meadows, and vineyards, fails to give account on husbandry and workforce, unlike the tax-conscription in 1828. This article investigates whether there was any difference between the socio-economic characteristics of the ethnic groups of the Banat using the 1828 conscription, and illustrates the intraregional pattern of development of local peasantry based on a composite indicator containing seven single indicators derived from the 1828 conscription.

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