Török Péter: A szabolcsi hajdúvárosok a Rákóczi-szabadságharc idején.

Péter Török: THE HAJDÚ TOWNS OF SZABOLCS DURING THE RÁKÓCZI WAR OF INDEPENDENCE Due to Ottoman devastations, by the last third of the 17th century the seven Hajdú towns had lost the military potential and the capacity to influence politics they still possessed at the beginning of the century. The weakening of the community enjoying collective nobility revealed those conflicts which it had previously been able to control thanks to its formidable military might. The strained relations with the neighbours were settled with varying degrees of success in the shadow of the War of Reconquest, which brought a completely new order to the whole area east of the Tisza. The seven Hajdú towns managed to retain their independence from Szabolcs county, and were consequently spared the fate of the Hajdús of Bihar, who were subjected to lordly authority. The war led by Ferenc Rákóczi II, which erupted in 1703 and lasted for eight years, fully exhausted the region east of the Tisza and the seven Hajdú towns, for the Prince expected them to perform beyond their means in terms of both manpower supply and military service. As a result, at the end of the war they submitted without resistance to the imperial troops, thereby closing a century of intermittent wars.